ckd@bucsb.UUCP (Christopher Davis) (07/02/89)
In article <113463@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> argv%eureka@Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes:
- [...] My intent was to point out the
- fact that a good UA should do the "right thing" regardless of how that
- UA stores its messages. Two "correct" UAs --each which stores files
- using the Mail and the MH method-- should do the same thing when it
- comes to replies, etc...
I'm going to go *way* off on a tangent here...
I'm working on (well, writing specs for, at the moment) an MUA for our
Incredibly Big Machine. I'm interested in finding out what people feel
the "right thing" is for replies (as here) or other aspects of an MUA.
Limitations of the thing: it will be written in REXX and use XEDIT.
It's *not* a CMS site, so I don't know at present what limitations that
interface will have (if they're really bad the whole project will just
go down the tubes). The programming team is completely unofficial and
is a management undergrad in Boston and an engineering student in NJ.
[If any of you think we can even get this thing DONE based on all that,
let us know what you think... :-]
Pie in the sky "this is what I'd really like if you could ever do it"
comments will be always accepted, occasionally implemented, definitely
appreciated. Ye Olde Hacker Spirit and all that.
Followups to comp.mail.misc which I think is the best place to go...
Oh, and no flames, please? I want suggestions, not "my MUA is better than
yours, my way is better than yours, etc." "My MUA does this and I like it"
is more the sort of thing I'm looking for.
--ckd
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--"Ignore the man behind the curtain and the address in the header." --ckd--ckd@bucsb.UUCP (Christopher Davis) (07/02/89)
OOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooops! I mucked up the followup-to line in that last. Followups should go to comp.mail.misc (or to me if you think it's not something worthy/appropriate for comp.mail.misc). --ckd -- /\ | / |\ @bu-pub.bu.edu <preferred> | Christopher K. Davis, BU SMG '90 / |/ | \ %bu-pub.bu.edu@bu-it.bu.edu | uses standardDisclaimer; \ |\ | / <for stupid sendmails> | BITNET: smghy6c@buacca \/ | \ |/ @bucsb.UUCP <last resort> or ...!bu-cs!bucsb!ckd if you gotta. --"Ignore the man behind the curtain and the address in the header." --ckd--