On Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:22:59 -0700, "Stephen C. Nill"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Thus, for all pratical reasons,
>Listserv 1.8c simply did not support editing of postings.

No.  The mail clients you cited do not support Resent-xxx: headers that are
documented in RFC822.  LISTSERV complies with the RFC, those mail clients do
not.  PC-Pine and Pegasus do support this, but ONLY if you do not edit or
change the message, not even to 'touch-up' a subject line.  The fundamental
problem is RFC822 requires the From: to reflect the originator of the message.
However, if you edit the message it is no longer that person's message, it is
now yours because you have changed it, however little.  This leads to a
contradiction.  Resent-xxx only works if you don't change the message and the
From: remains intact.  If you edit it, these programs (Pine and Pegasus) won't
let you use Resent-xxx because they insist the From: must be changed to
reflect the new authorship.  Even if you could 'spoof' the From: address, and
resend it to the List, it will still come back to you for approval because the
Resent-xxx lines are absent.  If you then use the 'bounce/resend' feature it
will work. the 2nd time around but this can get tedious for any volume of
work.

The resent-xxx headers were a feature of several mainframe text editor/mail
programs and this is LISTSERV's heritage.  Nowadays we suggest you use Send=
Editor,Hold and simply approve/not approve messages and send it back to the
author for changes.  Or get a mail program that lets you create your own
headers... (I don't know of one).



So, these mail clients support this