[mew-int 00917] Re: Forwarding Inline

[Charles Muller]

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 02:46, Havard Eidnes wrote:

> Hmm... Isn't this more of a "reply" with quoted text commented, then,
> such as this message?  In my mind, forwarding is "passing on a
> complete message, unchanged".

I didn't mean anything legalistic, like adhering a formal definition of
the term "forwarding." But some listservs, such as H-Net, run their
message transferal system through their list editors ("moderators")
using the forwarding function. With H-Net listservs being academic in
nature, the posts are almost always edited in one way or another. I
guess you could say that this is not "forwarding" in the strict sense of
the word, but whatever you want to call it, that's the way we do it.

Alternatively, I could reply, delete all of the "<" , and change the
message header. Or I could create a new message and copy and paste the
old one, but the way H-Net has their listserv program set up, by far the
fastest and simplest method is by "forwarding" inline. All other mail
programs have this option. Mew does a lot of other things that are far
more complex than this, so I would think that it should not be so
difficult to add this function. 

Regards,

Chuck

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