From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Derbyshire To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [Meta] Enough of the "egcs.cygnus.com" already! Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 22:53:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990201185756.0089de20@pop.netaddress.com> References: <"Mon,> <01> <1999> <08:25:39> <-0700> <3318.917882739@hurl.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-02n/msg00059.html Message-ID: <19990228225300.536yspBP-tvfy2WVXEMEJCYrBAD5u3AbZRcANVk5J2o@z> At 01:31 PM 2/1/99 -0200, you wrote: >Either the relay or an automatic reply saying ``the new e-mail address >for reporting egcs bugs is egcs-bugs@egcs.cygnus.com, please submit >your report again, sorry for the inconvenience''. MAKE THAT THING QUOTE BACK THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE!! I've seen a few systems where outgoing mail is either not automatically saved or isn't even saved at all, and people using such systems will experience "please submit your report again" as meaning "Please struggle to remember all that you wrote and then rewrite it slowly and painstakingly from scratch, and at the end, remember to use the right address!". This is why mailer_daemon mail quotes back the bounced message too. Best would be to have it send the message described, quote the oiginal below it, and have a Reply-To: of egcs-bugs@egcs.com. Then all the guy has to do who sees it is 1. Note "hmm, the damned address changed." which is what you want to remind them. 2. Hit "reply". 3. Edit away the notice and prefix symbols on the requoted message. 4. Send. 5. Use the new address now. -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -() < circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line." ------------------------------------------------- -- B. Mandelbrot | http://surf.to/pgd.net _____________________ ____|________ Paul Derbyshire pderbysh@usa.net Programmer & Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|