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From: tim@attdso.att.com (Tim J Ihde)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm monthly posting
Message-ID: <1620@attdso.att.com>
Date: 3 May 89 12:42:28 GMT
References: <122@dsinc.DSI.COM> <770@ivucsb.UUCP>
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In article <770@ivucsb.UUCP> news@ivucsb.UUCP (Todd Day) writes:
>In article <122@dsinc.DSI.COM> syd@dsinc.DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:
>~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.

>I don't consider this a bug, just a feature.  Lots of times when I am
>forwarding messages, I don't wan't all the quote stuff in the left
>hand column.  Before I found this "bug", I had to use
>:s/^~//g
>in vi to get rid of them.  If you do plan to "fix" this, please add
>an easy way to get rid of the quotes. 

I used to do this alot, mostly if I got back a message that bounced off
another machine due to an invalid address that I wanted to correct.
With the new version, though, I find the (b)ounce command takes care of
this quite nicely - the only problem being that it does not give you the
option to edit the bounced mail.

I would suggest that adding an edit option to (b)ouncing mail would be
more consistant than not quoting forwarded mail.

	tim

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