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Hi Douglas,
On 05 December 2000 at 15:16:21 -0600 (which was 21:16 where I
live) Douglas Hinds wrote and made these points:
MDP>> Well, yes. Here's an analogy: "Forwarding" allows you to put a
MDP>> message into a new envelope of your own when sending it on to a
MDP>> friend. You are in full control of any enclosures or extra notes
MDP>> on the message.
DH> Redirect also allows that. You can edit. Sometimes I do that with
DH> messages that need cleaning up or reformatting, before putting
DH> them in the outbox and moving them back to the inbox (or where
DH> ever). (I have asked for the ability to edit received messages for
DH> quite some time).
But that's a completely different operation from forwarding.
MDP>> Redirecting means crossing out the original address on the
MDP>> original envelope and possibly scrawling on the flap :-).
DH> Scrawling?
Yes - although I did mean it slightly "tongue-in-cheek" - hence the
smiley. Forwarding is an honest-to-goodness "here's something I
received which may interest you". The Subject is changed to Fwd:....
to clearly show that it is *not* the original message. The text is
quoted and formatted according to a forwarding template. There is no
pretence that the message containing the forwarded text is the
original. It is a message *from me* *to you* which contains
information *about and from someone else*.
Redirection is *not* that, nor does it have the same purpose.
Redirection is what you do to a message to move it on to another
individual, usually without change and usually intact. The only thing
that changes in the message is the To: address and some routing
headers. To put it in the same language as I used to describe a
"forwarded" message, A re-directed message ends up as a message *from
someone else* *to you* in which I am only mentioned vaguely in the
routing headers. As for changing anything within a re-directed message
... well, it seems somehow "dishonest" to me. If the post-office
changed the contents of a message that they were re-directing I'd
never trust them again!
Forward and Redirect are *not* for the same thing. MIME forward allows
you to do something else again beyond the definition of either of
these. I don't dispute that you use re-direct the way you do, but it's
bad netiquette IMHO. You should use text Forward to share information
from a text message with someone, MIME forward to show a complete
message to someone and redirect to move a message on when it is of
interest to someone other than you.
DH>>> If redirecting is a good substitute for forwarding,
MDP>> Not IMHO.
DH> I still fail to see your reasoning.
Have I explained my reasoning in any clearer a manner now (above)? I'm
not saying "it's the law", just my HO and the way I see it.
DH> OK, Marck D.
DH> Your happiness is important to all of us.
LOL.... and so it should be! ;-).
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Cheers,
.\\arck
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