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From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Using forms in ELM
Keywords: forms elm
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Date: 5 Aug 90 00:58:28 GMT
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I've been silently following the discussion on forms with a great deal
of interest.  Forms would be quite useful in a lot of situations IF
one could guarantee the recipient is using elm.  No one seems to have
mentioned that problem, so I'm going to assume the the sites which have
a real interest in forms are requiring all their users to use 'elm'.

That said, I absolutely agree the hardest part of forms is making them
up and sending them.  To date there's been only one suggestion with a
specific proposal for how to use them, and that's simply not enough detail
to build a feature set on.

I see the following forms problems:

 1. They're difficult to create;

 2. They're difficult to send;

 3. There's no forms libraries available, neither canned nor custom;

 4. There's no well-defined way to access such libraries.

These four questions need to be answered, and someone must be willing
to step up and do the work.  No one in the current development group
has expressed much interest in forms (except me, and I'm already
committed to another project).  Anyone willing to step forward?