Sat, 16 Sep 1995 17:20:48 +0200
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On Fri, 15 Sep 1995 19:44:00 EDT "s.merchant" <[log in to unmask]>
said:
>1. The word "forward" means a dozen different things, as you admit
> yourself above--yet the documentation (and your words above) insists
> that one "simply" uses the forward function of your mail client,
> implying that there's nothing more to it.
All right, if all you want is to have the message posted, in all but a
few cases "forward" will do it, whatever "forward" happens to do on your
particular mail system. If you want it to look like it came from the
original poster (and if you also want to modify it), there is indeed more
work to it and I agree that the manual should provide the technical
details, possibly in an appendix.
>2. The second problem should be evident from the above description, and
> that is that Listserv's mechanism to "approve" messages to a
> moderated list is _fundamentally_ incompatible with *many* (I'd
> venture *most*) mail clients in use. Majordomo has the right idea
> here: put the entire message that you want to approve (headers and
> all) in the body of the new message, and use a special delineator or
> password line,
That may be more robust, but typing the special delineator line and
password is also a lot more work than the "resend" method. If you want an
even more robust but also more bothersome method, you can submit a
DISTRIBUTE job to LISTSERV. This will *always* work, but it's quite a lot
of work.
>I don't think it's that hard to make it so, but first of all L-Soft has
>to admit that there's a deficiency in the existing method.
I'm happy to admit that there's a deficiency but I don't agree that
there's a simple method that works for everyone and isn't bothersome. The
deficiency is that there is no clear definition of what "forward" et al
should do and that some mail programs won't let you edit what you
forward. And then there are corporate gateways, which are another matter.
The simplest solution would probably be to set up a special address on
some central machine to which you can send mail with these "forward"
commands that put the header inside the message (making it oh so
wonderfully easy to reply to the original sender) and that would rewrite
the headers and pass them on to the destination of your choice. Multiple
special addresses can be set up for the various variants of "forward".
Eric
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