Re: Why not document dcc:?

2003-07-03 Thread Michael Richardson
Well, really, what we call dcc is what other MUAs implement as bcc. I think that our bcc makes more sense, but it does confuse people.

Re: Why not document dcc:?

2003-07-01 Thread Ken Hornstein
Comments? Votes? Seems reasonable to me. --Ken

Re: Why not document dcc:?

2003-07-01 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Tue, 01 Jul 2003 07:47:32 -0700 From:Jerry Peek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Comments? Votes? Yes, dcc has been around long enough that it isn't about to vanish next week... (and 2822 managed to avoid stealing that field name for some

Re: Why not document dcc:?

2003-07-01 Thread Jerry Peek
Robert Elz wrote: ... I would include a sentence or two about the risks of using dcc when really sending a bcc (as opposed to a cc to myself). Perhaps something like Note that the users listed in the dcc field receive no explicit indication that others who received the message are

Re: Why not document dcc:?

2003-07-01 Thread Neil W Rickert
Ralph Corderoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps mention it in the fcc description as an alternative. I found fcc useless for my purposes; it's really handy to have the real message-id, etc. Have mh set the message-id send: -msgid in your .mh_profile -NWR

Re: Why not document dcc:?

2003-07-01 Thread Earl Hood
On July 1, 2003 at 07:47, Jerry Peek wrote: A lot of us use the dcc: header field. It acts like bcc: does on most other MUAs. Is there any reason not to add a paragraph about it to the send(1) manpage? My Linux box is down right now, so I can't check this out, but here's a new

Re: Why not document dcc:?

2003-07-01 Thread Bill Wohler
received a blind-carbon copy. I think the bcc behavior of MH/nmh is what all MUAs should do. Earl and I are in total agreement here. I can't think of any reasons why we shouldn't document dcc. It works well with building whitelists with procmail, for example. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED