Re: postpone -> attachments lost

["M . Thielker" <balsa t-data com>]

Hi,

On 2001.08.29 00:21 Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> IMHO there are tiny but important differences between "real" forward and
> continue. When forwarding a message, all parts of the original message
> should
> be attachments to the new one. There is no reason that the user changes
> any
> part of the original, including text bodies.

It's completely unusual to have the text of a forwarded email be an
attachment. With many mail readers, having text as an attachment means
having to use an external viewer or editor, becaise most clients I'm aware
of don't have the (IMHO neat) way Balsa offers to deal with attachments.
Rather, they're displayed as either inlined images (bad) or little icons
(worse). Double-click one and it will be saved to disk as a temp file and
opened using the default editor. That's a nuisance for almost every user not
using Balsa. So, the text of forwarded messages should really be the message
body, _not_ an attachment.

Common practice prepends some of the original message's headers to that
body's text to show the origin of the message.

Quite often I receive messages that only need to be forwarded in part. There
may be internal corporate information, followed by information meant to be
read by subcontractors. There _must_ be a way to remove the confidential
internal information before forwarding the remainder of the message, so
there's your case for editing a message when forwarding:

-----6<---------6<---------6<---------6<----
Hi Melanie,

here's the proposal for our new project. Please forward this to x, y and z
and thry to get a quote of less than $5000 for it.

Blah blah blah

-----6<---------6<---------6<---------6<----

This is a typical example of such an email. I would have to forward that to
a number of people, of course omitting the top 5 lines......

Melanie