Xref: utzoo comp.mail.headers:513 comp.mail.misc:2030 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!purdue!bu-cs!bucsb!ckd From: ckd@bucsb.UUCP (Christopher Davis) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.misc Subject: What *should* an MUA do? (was MH verses the "all in one file" MUAs) Message-ID: <2729@bucsb.UUCP> Date: 2 Jul 89 03:10:58 GMT References: <113463@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: ckd@bucsb.bu.edu (Christopher K Davis) Followup-To: poster Distribution: na Organization: Boston University School of Management Lines: 37 In article <113463@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> argv%eureka@Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes: - [...] My intent was to point out the - fact that a good UA should do the "right thing" regardless of how that - UA stores its messages. Two "correct" UAs --each which stores files - using the Mail and the MH method-- should do the same thing when it - comes to replies, etc... I'm going to go *way* off on a tangent here... I'm working on (well, writing specs for, at the moment) an MUA for our Incredibly Big Machine. I'm interested in finding out what people feel the "right thing" is for replies (as here) or other aspects of an MUA. Limitations of the thing: it will be written in REXX and use XEDIT. It's *not* a CMS site, so I don't know at present what limitations that interface will have (if they're really bad the whole project will just go down the tubes). The programming team is completely unofficial and is a management undergrad in Boston and an engineering student in NJ. [If any of you think we can even get this thing DONE based on all that, let us know what you think... :-] Pie in the sky "this is what I'd really like if you could ever do it" comments will be always accepted, occasionally implemented, definitely appreciated. Ye Olde Hacker Spirit and all that. Followups to comp.mail.misc which I think is the best place to go... Oh, and no flames, please? I want suggestions, not "my MUA is better than yours, my way is better than yours, etc." "My MUA does this and I like it" is more the sort of thing I'm looking for. --ckd -- /\ | / |\ @bu-pub.bu.edu | Christopher K. Davis, BU SMG '90 / |/ | \ %bu-pub.bu.edu@bu-it.bu.edu | uses standardDisclaimer; \ |\ | / | BITNET: smghy6c@buacca \/ | \ |/ @bucsb.UUCP or ...!bu-cs!bucsb!ckd if you gotta. --"Ignore the man behind the curtain and the address in the header." --ckd--