Excuse me here, I guess my ignorance is showing.
I don't understand how passing through a message from the mail server is
going to eat up more memory.
And there *must* be some sort of message sent by SMTP, because otherwise
Arachne would have erased the mail or changed it to a snt.
That type of monitoring and passthrough shouldn't involve tying up any
memory beyond the point of "send mail"; we're not talking a TSR here!
It's just a line or two of decision on the code, with a screen write
that we could read while we're waiting for the dgi to process.
And Sam ... What you consider a "silly little mistake" on our part
could be the difference between success/failure love/hate feeling good
and feeling bad for other people.
Of course this wouldn't be a matter for discussion if we could fill in
that field from the hotlist instead of having a whole new blank editor
screen show up every time we want to use address list. IOW, if we have
to type in e-mail addresses for replies, forwarding, CCs etc, why bother
to have an address list? We could keep it on paper and have it right in
front of us when we're typing it in.
l.d.
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On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:10:44 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:04:17 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
>> It's the next day now. This message continued to refuse to be sent. I
>> looked and hunted and wondered ... then looked at the e-dress I had.
>> And it was then I knew we needed yet another "bell" or "whistle."
> The same happens to me too every now and then. In every case it has always
> been due to my fault and not a shortcoming in Arachne. In every case my
> problem with having the messages stay in my outbox, instead of being sent,
> has always been due to typos in the address lines. Sometimes I type
> commas in place of periods, and sometimes I forget to close the quotes and
> the "lesser-than" and "greater than" symbols that define the names and email
> addresses.
> Another bell or whistle in Arachne to help us to pinpoint our silly little
> mistakes might indeed be a nice-to-have feature. However, a mistake as
> stupid as these should be easy enough for us to find without any help
> being automatically generated from the program. Given the current stage of
> Arachne's development, I am voting for no more bells and whistles if they
> involve eating up more memory. I think the best way to deal with little
> problems like the one described here would consist only in improvements in
> a general help file.
> <snip>
> Sam Heywood
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