Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!UAFSYSB!KS06054 From: KS06054@UAFSYSB.BITNET (Ken Schriner) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.mailbook Subject: Re: BSMTP header Message-ID: Date: 2 Feb 90 20:22:30 GMT Sender: MAIL/MAILBOOK subscription list Reply-To: MAIL/MAILBOOK subscription list Lines: 27 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 2 Feb 90 12:34:41 LCL from On Fri, 2 Feb 90 12:34:41 LCL Michael Wagner said: >I don't understand something very fundamental about this discussion. >Why not accept the changes to the header elements as requests from a >naive user to change the header as he has? As a naive user, yeah, how come. I train a lot of users to use mail and basically, they never understand why they can't type over the stuff in the header. Basically, me neither. Full screen means the full screen, not just the text area. >... I don't have a lot of sympathy for the sentiment, expressed >recently a lot on this list, of let the buggers freeze in hell if they >type over the headers rather than learning the extra handfull of >commands for manipulating the headers. I missed the mail about the buggers freezing in hell, too bad. I understand the concept though. It reminds me a lot of Ashton Tate's response to the dBase user community needing the ability to produce compiled code. I'm with the users (and Michael Wagner). I don't want to learn, or train, users to use the extra handful of commands. I want to tell new users to MAIL, just type over the stuff in the header area to change it. Ken Schriner BITNet : KS06054@UAFSYSB Computing Services University of Arkansas 220 ADSB Fayetteville, AR 72701 (501) 575-2905