Re: [Evolution] forwarding of attachments

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 13:48 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 12:35 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 22:22 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > > > Lastly, if Evo did it the way most clients do, it would be
> trivial to
> > > > deal with the less common case of *not* wanting to send
> attachments:
> > > > just delete them from the attachments bar the way you do when
> composing
> > > > a new message.
> > >
> > > We do this by default.  The user must change a setting for this
> not to
> > > happen.
> >
> > Actually, the setting means "forward everything as an attachment,
> > including the text of the message". There's no reason (logically)
> not to
> > include attachments even when forwarding inline or quoted.
>
> consistancy with replying. also, if you are quoting then you are
> interested in the body text and not necessarily the attachments
> anyway.

Consistency is fine when it makes sense. However if I reply to someone
who sent me attachments, I would rarely if ever want to send them back
to him. If I'm passing his message on to someone else, I usually *do*
want to send everything, but sometimes I want the option of editing or
commenting on his text. We could go round and round on this, but I do
think it's a common case.

poc