Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!NDSUVM1!NU021172 From: NU021172@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Marty Hoag) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.mailbook Subject: Re: BSMTP header Message-ID: Date: 3 Feb 90 03:22:25 GMT Sender: MAIL/MAILBOOK subscription list Reply-To: MAIL/MAILBOOK subscription list Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network Lines: 42 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 2 Feb 90 13:24:41 EST from As a postmaster who probably shares some of the feelings of the two Wagners (are you related?). But I think a better solution would be a command which would work like FORWARD (with some features of REPLY) but would totally "encapsulate" the original mail, including all the headers, in the body of the mail. My only problem is what to call this. Some systems have RESEND and FORWARD but I don't use them enough to remember which does what... Maybe something like PASS? It would be nice if there were a way to PASS to ALL original addresses or the FROM or whatever just as you can with REPLY. But like FORWARD it would open up a couple lines of white space followed by an "original message" line then the note as received (with RECEIVED: lines and all...). For example, entering PASS xyz@abc (ALL would creat a new mail item addressed to xyz@abc AND all the original recipients (not sure the best way to do that but it would be nice to be able to snatch addresses off the original note). The mail would look like: Date: ... From: me To: xyz@abc, ... (from all or whatever, if that is used) Subject: (hmmm... could include original one with "Re:" if none included on the pass command ===================... ...a couple lines left intentionally blank... ---------------------------- Original Mail ----------------------------------- Received:... etc. I know Richard has been thinking about this and has indicated he will probably do it some time (I hope I am reflecting his feelings correctly...;-). For now I have a command called PASS that simply does a FORWARD but stacks a "Reply *" to protect innocent recipients of items forwarded from a list with a reply-to the list... So maybe there is a different name someone could think of (GRAB, CAPTURE, BAG, ...). Marty