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> The explicit suggestion was to put header info in with the reply,
> thereby allowing novice users to nuke messages with simple editing
> errors and confusing them even more with archaic and meaningless lines.

That's fine, but the suggestion was also made to make header editing,
either within or without the main message, an expert-only option. This
basically removes any objection based on what novice users might want
to or need to do. And, of course, the external editor used for editing
the headers could default to one that emulates the current behaviour.
This means novice users would never even see a change.

> Then they hassle the local system admin. Do you really believe they
> solve the problem for themselves? If you do, you work with programmers,

I work with programmers. I want a mail user agent that supports the people
I work with. That helps me get *my* job done. ALL our users are accustomed
to using vnews, readnews, and rnews... all of which expose them to these
nasty headers. Even the administrative and other non-programmers. I haven't
seen any of the dire consequences you're predicting. But even granting you
that someohow things will get worse with Elm allowing header editing, it
can be made as invisible as you like for novices without getting in our
way.

And it'll make the main part of Elm that much smaller, to boot!
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