Subject: Bouncing mail

From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 May 93 11:40:32 +0000

A naive question, I realise, from a relative newcomer to the Pine world....

Elm has a "bounce message" feature that works along these lines:
        A sends message to B
        B decides the message is more relevant to C
        B uses "bounce" command to remail message to C
        C receives mail as if it came directly from A
                (meaning they can reply straight to it)

This would be useful in situations such as our Advisory/Help Desk mail drop,
where someone redistributes messages to suitable staff to be dealt with.
Without "bounce" the answering member of staff has to firkle around saving the
message to a file, starting a new message, reading in the old message, etc.,
etc..

Is "bounce" deliberately omitted as part of Pine design philosohpy?  Or is it up
for negotiation with the development team? ;-)

                                Mike Brudenell
                                Computing Service, Univ. of York, UK