On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 13:49:09 +0800, Thomas Fernandez wrote:
> 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.
Uhm. When I said 'want to see headers' I meant everything that goes
with it including replying to the *original* sender. I agree forwarding is
not the thing to do.
I have no problem with redirecting except that as was rightfully
mentioned, the recipient may wish to know how the message got to him. Well
if he can make sense out of the X-Sender address then he'll know.
Otherwise this 'by way of ..... etc.' solution was being mentioned. Steve
quite rightfully said that it's a bad idea. The message header could
become filled with 'by way of's ... ' in a message repeatedly redirected.
[..snip..]
> 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.
> ;-)
I don't get it. Didn't you say you want the recipient to be able to
reply to the sender of the message? Well, when the recipient opens the
MIME attachment, a new window will open and he may reply as needed.
The two purposes are pretty clear to me.
Send the message with relative anonymity : redirect. (Otherwise mangle
the reply:to header with this 'by way of stuff'.
Send the original message informing the recipient clearly that you
sending a copy of the message and yet handing over the real deal untouched
copy .... MIME forward.
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