Errors-to: owner-drums@CS.UTK.EDU
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 15:25:30 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
To: Eric Thomas <ERIC@SEARN.SUNET.SE>
Cc: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no, Keith Moore <moore@CS.UTK.EDU>,
        ietf-drums <drums@CS.UTK.EDU>
Subject: Re: Resent- facility
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On Mon, 18 Sep 1995, Eric Thomas wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Sep 1995 14:55:00 +0200 Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no said:
> 
> >The "forward" option (which I *heartily* support recommending as The Way
> >to move messages to someone who needs to see it)
> 
> For what little it may be worth,  I can't stand it when people forward me
> mail  in this  manner. Usually  it's  because they  want me  to answer  a
> question someone  asked them. So, I  have to retype or  cut+paste all the
> addresses, because they're  not in the header. When people  resend, I can
> simply REPLY ALL. This is  particularly annoying when people forward mail
> from X.400 users with addresses that require escaping.

The "Reply all" command could be designed to automatically fetch addresses
also from the included message. Or only from that message.

An interesting side-issue is if "In-Reply-To" of the reply should refer
to the Message-ID of the included or the surrounding message. This depends
on the kind of reply. If you are replying to the included message, and
replying to the people in the header of that message, you should indicate
the Message-ID of the included message. If you are replying to the
surrounding message, especially if it has added comments to the
forwardes message, then you should use the Message-ID of the included
message.

So what is needed might be that when people give the "Reply all"
command, the mail system should ask them "Are you replying to the
included or the surrounding message?" How can that question be
phrased so that people understand it?

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Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme