From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Nov 16 2000 - 10:08:10 CST
In <200011091621.eA9GLQW25558@bean.epix.net> "Forrest J. Cavalier III" <mibsoft@mibsoftware.com> writes:
>Present and future agents which are mail and news capable
>provide three choices for initiating a followup message.
>(Commonly these are menu choices, often they are buttons too)
> - Followup by news
> - Followup by mail
> - Followup by both
Yes, these do not quite fit the scenarios we had in mind. I think what our
draft is asking for is that one of those buttons/options should normally
be preselected/highlighted by the system, depending on the MCT supplied.
The most we can expect of an implementor who chooses not to preselect is
that he will issue the warning in the user then makes the "wrong" choice.
I have tried to make that clearer in the wording.
>The wording now is especially not helpful for the
>"Followup to news and mail" case, because the user already
>made a deliberate selection, therefore a programmer might understand
>the word "automatically" does not apply.
Yes, I am now using "by default" in the relevant places. It is also
simplified because, now, absence of the header is covered by the "nobody"
wordings
>On 19 October, I my message suggested this wording for the RFC:
> By default, a followup agent ought to follow the wishes as
> expressed in the Mail-Copies-To header when posting a followup
> article. In particular, the indication of "nobody" is widely
> seen as a very strong wish. In every case, the followup agent
> ought to give appropriate indication and accept confirmation to
> override the wishes expressed by Mail-Copies-To.
And I have pinched a little of that wording when describing 'nobody'. I
think implementors should now be in no doubt as to what is "expected" of
them.
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