Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu From: jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Suggestion for next Elm release Message-ID: <260@uwm.edu> Date: 29 Sep 89 01:25:47 GMT References: <9674@chinet.chi.il.us> Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Lines: 37 From article <9674@chinet.chi.il.us>, by les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell): > In article <170@uwm.edu> jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes: >>From article <819@umigw.MIAMI.EDU>, by wb8foz@ibiza.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher): >>> [Question about using Elm as a reply agent for newsreaders] >> >>In any case, I can't get Elm to work "properly" as the mailer from vn, >>probably for the same reasons it doesn't work from rn. And the mailer >>that I *can* use lacks the ability to save copies of outgoing messages. > > Can't you just add yourself in a Cc: or Bcc: header line? > Most mailers that parse the To: line from the message file > know about Cc:, Bcc: and multiple To:'s. > Then you can retreive your copy with elm and put it whever you like. > [Me again]... I can, and I do, manually insert the Cc: headers. When I don't forget. :-) But this only clutters up my own mailbox, and then *I* have to save the message somewhere, and... Anyway, this is what computers are supposed to do *for* me. It's not a question of "it can't be done", but of "it's so damn inconvenient to do it at all". I am now forced to decide whether I want to be inconvenienced by doing things *manually* :-( or abandon functionality for the "convenience" of the software doing only half the job. This shouldn't be. Thus: It would be nice if Elm did... -- John G Dobnick Computing Services Division @ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee INTERNET: jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu UUCP: uunet!uwm!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!jgd "Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight." -- William Safire