Re: Hypermail

(This mail is Cc'ed to the hypermail mailing list as I think others will be interested in this talk.)

On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Tran Quoc Loc wrote:

> I have small suggestion : I think, it will be great if Hypermail have the
> some parameter that allow to configure it to choice original sender as
> the author of article instead of one who forwarded it ( some thing
> hm_originalauthor = 1/0 ! ). This will be very useful and more
> appropriate while you have the moderated list to archive, when the
> article should be reviewed by list's moderator before be posted into the
> list, and reached the list only if moderator forwarded it. In this case,
> the author of the article should be the original author and not the
> moderator, isn't it ?

I can understand fully why you want that feature. The main problem to implement such a feature is that there is no standard way of how "forwarded" mails are constructed, and thus the only way to make such a feature only remotely usable would be to support the formats the most common mailers use. I'd hate to write such code.

I would of course be interested in finding a way to solve problems like this, but I'm failing to come up with one right now.

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