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The Message Addressing Window
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At this window, you enter all the information required by
Power-QWK to ensure that a message you have entered reaches
its required destination and with the appropriate level of
Privacy.
If you have changed your mind about sending the message, press
Esc to return to the message reading screen.
The window contains four fields labelled To, Subject, Private
and Conference.
Whenever it can, Power-QWK chooses appropriate default, or
sometimes mandatory, values for these fields, others you have
to enter yourself.
There are two mechanisms for entering messages within Power-QWK:
Say and Reply.
If you 'say' a message then it is a totally original message
which you have composed and now wish to send to somebody. A Reply
is a message which you have entered in response to another message
received from somebody else.
The default or mandatory values, chosen by Power-QWK, for each of
the fields in the Addressing Window depend upon whether the
message you are sending is a Say or a Reply, as shown below:
Field Say Reply
~~~~~ ~~~ ~~~~~
To ALL sender of the original message
Subject Blank same as original message
Privacy Public same as original message
Conference the conference in which you entered the message.
Once you are satisfied that all fields are correct, press F10 or
Ctrl/Return to have Power-QWK send the message (that is, append
it to your message file for the current online service, for
later upload).
Once the message has been sent, the label of the To field changes
to CC (short for the typing term Carbon Copy). You can now enter
a different Addressee's name, to receive an exact copy of the
message you have just sent to someone else.
CC messages may have a different Subject to the original message
and may be placed in a different conference, but they must be
Private.
Conversely, messages addressed to ALL may only be Public and NOT
Private.
When you have finished sending messages, press Return or Esc to
quit the Addressing Window.
Note that, when entering the To or Conference fields, you may
press F2 to select a name from the Addressee or Conference Pick
List.
Some further notes:
As long as you haven't actually uploaded it yet, any Say or Reply
may be further edited before you actually send it on its way.
Pressing H (for History) at the Conference Menu calls up a list
of all messages composed during the current session. From the
History screen, you may alter To, Subject, Privacy or destination
Conference and you may display (with full Ansi support) or edit
any message or reply.
Replies are a bit more flexible still in that they can be re-edited
straight away.
If you are addressing a Reply and suddenly realise that you
should have said something different within it then, finish
addressing it, send it as usual but, when you return to the
message screen, press R for Reply again. Power-QWK will offer you
the chance to re-edit the reply you have just sent.
This facility is not available for Say messages because Say is
available from the Conference Menu as well as from the message
screen and is therefore handled differently internally.
To re-edit a Say, press H for History at the Conference Menu.