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From: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Feature addition idea
Message-ID: <40@dsinc.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 88 14:18:13 GMT
References: <1094@raspail.UUCP> <51900010@mcdurb> <2454@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
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In article <2454@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>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.
I disagree that the header menu is the problem.  Remember that Elm is 
a mailing system for users from Novices to Guru's. Novices cannot
handle an editor.  Note that it is possible to build mail and read
it from Elm with out using any Editor at all.  Forcing them to use
an editor is wrong.  Perhaps allowing it for the Guru's isnt wrong,
but you still need to have a way for the novices to handle things
without the editor.
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