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From: jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Suggestion for next Elm release
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Date: 29 Sep 89 01:25:47 GMT
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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
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