Prompting users for "Cc:" in Mail after message composed is confusing

Felix Lee flee at dictionopolis.cs.psu.edu
Tue Nov 20 20:26:18 AEST 1990


>Another advantage of the "Cc:" prompt is it gives you a chance to
>back out of an exit

In the MH-ish interface, after typing or editing your message it gives
you a "What now?" prompt, letting you abort, edit, defer, or send the
message.  RN's Pnews and Rnmail programs also have a what-now prompt.
I like this style of interface better than Mail's tilde escapes.
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Felix Lee	flee at cs.psu.edu



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