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In article <9301090949.AA22849@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof) writes:
>
>On Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:09:47 -0500 Tim Pierce <twpierce@unix.amherst.edu> said:
>>In article <9301080223.AA22606@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> you write:
>>>What about supporting "R" as a command where one can specify the address
>>>one wishes to use?
>>There is a (f)orward command which works quite nicely in this regard.

>The (f)orward command includes the headers, so doesn't do what I am
>suggesting.  My request is to make things *easier* for the user, not
>to make them do extra work (by having them delete the header-lines).

This is a useful feature.  It makes it quite clear who sent the
original item.  Parsing the headers down would be nice, but not easy
with the vareity of mailers out there.

>As to (f)orward itself, what is the rationale behind prefixing all
>the lines of the forwarded item with ">"s?
>Isn't it much easier (to program) and visually cleaner for the user
>to put a separator line ahead of the forwarded item (something like
>"------- start of forwarded item ------"), and a similar line after
>the forwarded item?

No, its really ugly when you have 6 or 8 ----start of forwarded
item----.  It can be tough to figure out who said what, and people
occaisoally delete those lines.

Adam
Adam Shostack 					adam@das.harvard.edu

What a terrible thing to have lost one's .sig.  Or not to have a .sig
at all.  How true that is.