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From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: A basic Wish List
Message-ID: <1990Mar3.003152.7524@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
Date: 3 Mar 90 00:31:52 GMT
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jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles) writes:

>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. :-)

ACK-ACK!  Oooooo, look ma, anti-aircraft guns!!

But seriously -- I disagree with this most strongly.  Elm is quite
popular at my site (and others) precisely because it insulates the
users from (most) of the stupidity of headers.  The very few times
that headers are needed, they *like* having them in a separate menu.
Agreed that there's a lot of dain-bramaged news software out there,
but that's no excuse to force users to deal with headers they usually
don't need, want, or understand.  If someone's news software is broke,
bitch at him -- don't needlessly complicate life for users who (mostly).
couldn't care less.
-- 
Steve Simmons      ...sharkey!lokkur!scs     scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us
"My occupational hazard's that my occupation's just not around."
				-- Jimmy Buffet