From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Change in rmail-reply Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:32:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20090128.002236.153267880.hanche@math.ntnu.no> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233239786 18635 80.91.229.12 (29 Jan 2009 14:36:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:36:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Harald Hanche-Olsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 29 15:37:39 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LSY19-0007ND-Hd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:37:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39280 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LSXzo-0000bH-Sd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:35:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LSXxy-0007ow-QD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:34:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LSXxw-0007mb-Ds for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:34:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37916 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LSXxw-0007mJ-3L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:34:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:35948) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LSXxv-00030I-G7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:33:59 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LSXwI-0001L6-7L; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:32:18 -0500 In-reply-to: <20090128.002236.153267880.hanche@math.ntnu.no> (message from Harald Hanche-Olsen on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:22:36 +0100 (CET)) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:108358 Archived-At: Note: Reintroducing a message into the transport system and using resent fields is a different operation from "forwarding". "Forwarding" has two meanings: One sense of forwarding is that a mail reading program can be told by a user to forward a copy of a message to another person, making the forwarded message the body of the new message. A forwarded message in this sense does not appear to have come from the original sender, but is an entirely new message from the forwarder of the message. Now I understand how these terms are being used. Forwarding and resending do similar jobs, but package the message differently. The RFC is clear, but it seems to be clearly wrong. If John Doe sends a message to you, and you resend it to me, and I do "reply to all", it seems clear that my reply should by default go to and to all the other people you resent it to -- as well as to the sender and recipients of the original message. Can anyone present an argument in support of what the RFC says? Someone else wrote: The distinction is the difference between "I'd like you to see this mail" and "this mail was misdirected to me". [If you've used mutt, it's the difference between forward and bounce.] I can see why, in the misdirected case, you would prefer to use resend. I have not seen any statement previously that resend is only intended for that case. Is this the stated purpose of resend? But if that is the motive for using resend, it seems to support the conclusion that replies should go to the other people to whom you resent the message.