Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!CUVMB!JAUUS From: JAUUS@CUVMB.BITNET (jbaltz) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.mailbook Subject: Re: Proposals for yet another version of MAIL/BOOK Message-ID: Date: 17 Jan 90 17:03:07 GMT Sender: MAIL/MAILBOOK subscription list Reply-To: MAIL/MAILBOOK subscription list Lines: 22 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 17 Jan 90 11:09:12 EDT from On Wed, 17 Jan 90 11:09:12 EDT Richard Seifert(IBM Systems Maintenance) said: > > Just to add my opinion, I sort of like Jim's idea. It is handy (at times) >to be able to alter the header, if you know what you are doing. However, >Joe-Fred User, who may or may not know what he is doing, should probably not >be allowed to make the same alterations. > Better yet would be to have a variable (either NOVICE or EXPERT, either one) that would a) allow you to edit headers b) shorten the final message to something like: purge nn msgs? ynm &c. I'm sure if I sat down to think I could come up with more :) DISCLAIMER: I don't speak for Columbia, and Columbia doesn't speak for me //jbaltz Jerry B. Altzman jbaltz@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu jauus@CUVMB NEVIS::JBALTZ (HEPnet) +1 212 854 8058