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From: jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: A basic Wish List
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Date: 2 Mar 90 21:07:17 GMT
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[someone wrote:] 
>>    I often have to copy the To address out of the body of the message.
>>    Using elm, I have to work with a paper and pencil to remember what to
>>    edit into the headers.  Why add a whole new section to the user interface
>>    (the header input and editing), when the users is already using a
>>    perfectly good editor of his choice.


And, eric@ists.ists.ca (Eric M. Carroll) responded:

>I cannot recall a single instance of needing this. You must have some 
>seriously warped transport agents along the way. Transport agents should
>not, ever, ever ever ever touch the header, except to add tracing information. 
>No. Not. Negative. Get it right the first time and leave it alone.


ACK!  Have you NEVER seen a site with broken news software?  The "Reply-To:"
field is often set to "user@host.uucp" when it's often "user@do.ma.in", which
is in the .signature of the message.  I would like to get rid of the headers
section also.  It would solve several shortcommings of Elm.  However, at least
for now it does need a bit more discussion. :-)

	-Jeff
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Jeff Beadles				jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM 
Utek Engineering, Tektronix Inc.	+1 503 685 2568
			"Credo quia absurdum"