From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Forward option for Mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:56:33 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a55cc054-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Russ Cox wrote: > 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. Exactly, thank you for agreeing with -all- my points. Re: 'knows' the destination address because it's the place you got the mail From:. Fwd: has no such destination because computers can't read minds. Happy Holidays. -- -- Open Forge, LLC 24/365 Onsite Support for PCs, Networks, & Game Consoles 512-695-4126 (Austin, Tx.) help@open-forge.com irc.open-forge.com Hangar 18 Open Source Distributed Computing Using Plan 9 & Linux 512-451-7087 http://open-forge.org/hangar18 irc.open-forge.org James Choate 512-451-7087 ravage@ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.com