ss@wivax.UUCP (Sid Shapiro) (07/27/83)
We would like to conduct a poll on a minor point of the
user interface to the ucb/mail program.
Scenario:
Mail is sent to a system-wide alias. A person (hereafter
known as the "replier" uses the "r" command to reply to the
message.
The header of the reply message contains a "To" field with
the name of the originator of the original message (the one
being replied to) and also the alias. In other words - the
reply goes to the originator AND the all folks who got the
original message.
Question:
Is that reasonable behavior?
Not from a system, or naive-user, or even experience-user
standpoint, but from a mail-system-design standpoint.
The results will be posted. (And maybe the software changed!)
Thanks, folks
Sid Shapiro -- {decvax,linus}!wivax!ss -- Wang Institute
ss.Wang-Inst@UDel-Relay -- (617)649-9731
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Sid Shapiro -- {decvax,linus}!wivax!ss -- Wang Institute
ss.Wang-Inst@UDel-Relay -- (617)649-9731thomson@utcsrgv.UUCP (07/28/83)
Having 'r' send mail back to the originator and to all other
original recipients is fine, since that's exactly what you
asked it to do. If you want it to go only to the originator,
use 'R'.
Well, maybe not so fine ... perhaps the two functions should
be interchanged.
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Brian Thomson, CSRG Univ. of Toronto
{linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd,utzoo}!utcsrgv!thomsonalle@ihuxb.UUCP (07/28/83)
If you use 'R' rather than 'r', then a reply is sent to the sender only. Now maybe the two commands should be reversed, but the feature exists and having both features does rather make sense. Allen England
jcz@ncsu.UUCP (08/03/83)
References: wivax.18470 use 'R' instead of 'r', and see what happens. --jcz