From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar@algonet.se)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 17:13:57 CDT
Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> It can automate the process. The reading agent will be able to mark
> such messages in a clear way, and the reader will no longer depend on
> whether the sender was smart enough to indicate that it was a CC in
> the body of the message.
The smartness of the sender has little to do with. He might be smart
enough to conifgure his reader to insert a Posted-and-Mailed thing,
or might be smart enough to have his reader to insert a blurb. My
smartness if of the latter kind.
Terje Bless <link@tss.no> writes:
> On 02.10.00 at 07:10, Erland Sommarskog <sommar@algonet.se> wrote:
>
> >The right place if I want a user to see this information is in the body.
>
> The body is never the right pace when what you want to convey is structured
> information.
It might be that you only use your mail bodies to send people
unstructured ramblings, and put the points you make in the header.
But I believe most people put information they want other people
to see in the body.
>You not only wnat to tell hims benn posted and mailed, you
> also want to tell him _where_ it's posted
Nah, I assume that he knows which newsgruops he has posted to, and
if he hasn't he has to blame himself. (Which is not at all inapplicable.
I post some to the MS SQL Server newsgroups, and many newbies there
has not yet learnt cross-posting.)
> Read the Posted-and-Mailed draft. Among other things, it suggest a blurb in
> the body until critical mass of support for the new header has been reached
> and this is how it is implemented in YA-NW. It works very well.
The blurb will need to be there forever.
-- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se