Dave_Aronson@3com.com
Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:06:54 -0500
Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au> wrote:
> As far as the notion of allowing the user to change the M-C when
> forwarding - I'm not sure on the best way to handle this. From a
> flexibility p.o.v., it's good to offer - but the complexity does
> worry me a tad.
I don't see what needs to be very complex, in either spec or implementation.
The addition to the spec could just be a single line such as, "When forwarding a
message, the UA SHOULD default to the same Message-Context as received, but
allow the user to change it."
As for implementation, many UAs already allow you to change assorted headers.
The From, To, Cc, Bcc, Subject, Reply-To, Newsgroups, Followup-To, and other
fields generally set by the user are trivial examples. Many allow setting of
Priority, Sensitivity, and more, and even insertion of arbitrary lines, like the
ever-popular forged moderator approval. B-) To extend this to Message-Context
(or indeed any additional header line) should not be overly complex.
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