Hi Allie,
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:27:01 -0500GMT (19/01/2000, 12:27 +0800GMT),
Allie Martin wrote:
AM> May I?
Sure. ;-)
AM> If the recipient doesn't really want to see the original message
AM> headers then forward the message.
Ah, but forwarding and redirecting are different things. If I forward
a message to you and you hit "reply", you will reply to me. If I
redirect the same message and you hit "reply", you will reply to the
original sender.
That is important when you deal with people who still think that fax
is more convenient than email, simply because that's the way they've
done it for the past 15 years; and on top of that they use Outlook,
which wouldn't tell them the sender's email address, only the FromName
(that programme should be forbidden in business, really). Stupid
enough, all 9 branch offices of my company in Germany use only the
company name, not the city, as FromName, so there is really no way for
the final recipient to know where to reply to. Want more: each
employee in Germany has a personal email address
([EMAIL PROTECTED]), but the central computer departure in
Germany decided that the FromName still be only the company name!
That's why my people here (who also use Outlook) need to hit "reply",
and this has to go to the correct original sender. That's why I need
to recirect if someone sends an enquiry only to me, but it should have
been sent to one of my local staff with just a cc copy to me.
Whnile your remark about the headers may be right, neither the
employees in Germany nor the ones here even know what an email header
is. ;-)
AM> If you wish to have nothing to do with the message except relaying it
AM> then MIME forward it.
Arrgh. I get mime forwarded messages sometimes, and it annoys me
greatly to have to click on the attachment to see what this is about.
AM> But that doesn't negate
AM> the usefulness of MIME forwarding when used in a selective and
AM> constructive manner.
If you want to keep headers intact, that is, right? No points here.
;-)
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Cheers,
Thomas.
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