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spencer@ernie.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun) writes:
>others have suggested just using f)orward... how about just having it
>verify the To: address the same way that it verifies the subject?

>i.e. when you reply, it shows you who you're replying to and then says

>Subject: RE: foo

>And lets you CHANGE the subject if you want to.

>Why not do the same thing for To:?  One extra carriage return for people
>who don't want to change it, and easy access for people who do want to.

>I've always found it annoying to have to save the article and then
>remember to go to the header screen.  Especially if it's a long
>response, by the time I ZZ out of vi, I've forgotten that I wanted to
>change the header :-)

I often have a similar problem when replying privately to a message received
from a mailing list: The 'From:' field specifies the original author, but
there is also a 'Reply-to:' field pointing to the mailing list address.
(Other mailing list are organized different, i.e. don't have the 'Reply-to:'
field).

A normal r)eply doesn't give any feedback with respect to where the reply will be
sent to, so you have to remember to check whether the reply will be sent to
the author or to the mailing list.

>This would not require using any additional command keys and would be a
>very minor change to the interface -- all you have to do is hit one
>extra carriage return, and if you forget, nothing bad will happen, you
>just have to hit carriage return again.

It could even be made an option, settable in the elmrc file. Those who like
this feature set it ON, others set it to OFF.

-Tonnie.

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Tonnie Geraets                                E-mail: tonnie@ctrl.phys.tue.nl
Department of Physics     Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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