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From: frankb@usource.UUCP (Frank Bicknell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm monthly posting - August 1989
Message-ID: <227@usource.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 89 11:34:25 GMT
References: <1989Jul27.131046.15633@DSI.COM> <1989Jul29.163127.15265@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
Reply-To: frankb@usource.UUCP (Frank Bicknell)
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In article <1989Jul29.163127.15265@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes:

+syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:
+~2.  Elm(1) bugs
+
+~EB03 When `f' (forwarding) a message, if the user doesn't elect
+~     to edit the forwarded message at first but later does so on
+~     the ``send menu'', the text of the message is not quoted
+~     with the prefix string.
+
+Please don't "fix" this.  Many other people and I consider this "bug"
+a "feature".
+
+If you feel you must fix this, then provide a facility for forwarding
+mail without the included-text character.  I don't like typing
+:1,$s/^~//
+on each one of my forwarded bounced letters.

I agree.  Perhaps 'reply' should have a similar "feature".  I
have a function key mapped to strip everything, another which
runs paragraphs through a wrap filter (lines are inevitably too
long), and another which adds '> ' back in.  There must be a
better way?

Until I read the posting, I didn't know about the 'forward'
feature, though ;) .
-- 
Frank Bicknell
UniSource; 1405 Main St, Ste 709; Sarasota, FL 34236
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