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From: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Feature addition idea
Message-ID: <4408@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 16 Dec 88 06:30:13 GMT
References: <1094@raspail.UUCP> <51900010@mcdurb> <2454@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <2454@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
+In article <51900010@mcdurb>, darrell@mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM writes:
+> Having it show up in the headers menu would be nice but selecting this
+> item would conflict with the Reply-To: header; elm uses the first letter
+> of the header as the selection key...
+
+The headers menu is the problem, not the solution. A solution is to just
+do what the 'reply' function in news does, and let the user edit the
+headers with their usual editor. Put all the headers in, let them edit their
+message, then read them all back and delete the ones the user leaves empty.

That solution as is would go against the grain of ELM's philosophy of 
being user friendly for both sophisticated *and* unsophisticated 
users.  
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