Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 14:14:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Gregory J. Woodhouse" <gjw@wnetc.com>
Sender: gjw@shell3.ba.best.com
To: Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com>
cc: drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: MUA practice summary meets Billy The Kid
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It's true that some MUAs allow the user to define a larger set of header
fields that can be explicitly modified by the user and then provide a
command to make these additional fields editable through the UI, butmany
users are not likely to be aware of this capability or are likely to be
uncertain about how to use it. It is also quite possible that users
knowing how to do so may not wish to take the time to configuure their MUA
and manually switch modes and edit "Reply-to" for each message distributed
through a mailing list. Of course, my point is that just because it may be
possible for users to edit this field, it is not realistic to expect them
to do so.

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Gregory Woodhouse
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God made machine language; all the rest is the work of man.