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Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de> wrote in <4071@sapwdf.UUCP>:

|     o reply requested, where you can't delete the message until you've
|       replied to it; 

Let's modify that: a letter with the reply-requested attribute should be
undeletable until you've either answered it or actively refused to answer it.

Maybe I should expand: responding to the letter would clear the attribute,
but you shouldn't HAVE to do that to delete the letter; you should be
prevented from unintentionally deleting it by having some positive action
required.  If you try to delete it without answering it, the mailer could
say "The sender requested a reply to this letter and you haven't sent one.
Delete anyway? n" with "no" as the default reply.  It shouldn't sit in your
mailbox forever if you don't want to answer it.

Otherwise the net will be flooded with "You demand a reply?  Here's your
blankety-blank reply: you send me one more blankety reply-requested message
and I'll make your postmaster sorrier than hell that you were ever allowed
access to mail, you blankety-blank!"

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