[4128] in testers
Re: Bcc and dsmail chaining
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue May 25 23:09:00 1999
Message-Id: <199905260308.XAA08924@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>, Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>,
testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 May 1999 23:04:27 EDT."
<199905260304.XAA08914@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 23:08:53 EDT
>
> > So, while this makes me happy, we've changed the default behavior
> > of nmh, which may be perplexing or irritating to people who come into
> > the environment familiar with nmh -- so shouldn't this change
> > (and how to revert it on a per-user basis) get doc'ed somewhere?
>
> I think that dealing with all of our users that are used to the
> existing behavior is a larger set than the people showing up with
> previous nmh experience. I believe that retaining athena's default is
> more important than retaining nmh's.
Oh, oops, it was pointed out to me that jhawk's mail didn't say that
we should back out the default change and document how to do it
individually, that we should document how to get from our default to
the nmh default, which does seem reasonable. please pardon the
confusion.
Jonathon
