From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Forward option for Mail In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:53:12 CST." From: "Russ Cox" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <8467.1071539534.1@t40.swtch.com> Message-Id: Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:52:14 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a550e18a-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > > What does Forward do differently from Reply? > > Looks like it prints "Fwd: " instead of "Re: " in the > > subject line. > > I'm truly stunned at this... > > Fwd is to a completely -different- destination. > > Re is to the source of the traffic. > > They are fundamentaly different functions. No, they're not. In both cases you're writing a new message to someone with the current message mime-attached with type rfc822. The only difference is the subject line (as I pointed out above) and the default destination (as you point out above). The default destination for Reply is some address on the message, but Forward has no sensible default. So in the Forward implementation just posted, you provide an address with a click argument. If you invoke Reply with the same click argument, the only difference twixt the two is the subject line! And if you don't give an argument, it's just not that hard to type one more keystroke -- ^U -- before typing in the new address. Either way, they're very similar. Russ