Re: Prompting users for "Cc:" in Mail after message composed is confusing

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From: Felix Lee
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 1990 09:26

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>Another advantage of the "Cc:" prompt is it gives you a chance to
>back out of an exit

In the MH-ish interface, after typing or editing your message it gives
you a "What now?" prompt, letting you abort, edit, defer, or send the
message.  RN's Pnews and Rnmail programs also have a what-now prompt.
I like this style of interface better than Mail's tilde escapes.
--
Felix Lee	flee@cs.psu.edu

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