[texhax] Hermann Zapf

[William Adams]

On Jun 11, 2015, at 10:56 AM, Philip Taylor wrote:

> There are ever-increasing times when I wish the same; I wonder whether
> e-mail might evolve into a system whereby the originator can continue to
> edit a message right up to the moment when the intended recipient first
> opens it for reading.  Certainly for those (such as myself) who divide
> their spare IT time between reading and contributing to fora, and
> reading and sending e-mail, the lack of a retrospective "Edit" feature
> in the latter is a severe disadvantage.

FWIW, that's how e-mail worked on proprietary, centralized systems such as AOL and Compuserve back in the day.

It's still how private messages work on a fair number of Forum / messageboard systems such as phpBB.

William

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