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Re: XCmail: Share addressbooks between different systems (draft to discuss)

jbb
Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:33:58 -0800

Dear Folks,

    A combination of the import function in mozzilla and an e-mail tag
should do the home/work/school address book. Ordinary file locking and
update should handle the single machine shared problem. The main
problem I see is galloping featuritis! One program must not be asked to
do everything; what is a sysadmin for? The multiple machine address
book solution would be novel. The single machine multiple user
problem has been done to death.

    Shalom,

    John B. Brown.
    <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:16:51 +0000 (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Hello,
> 
> So what about this:
> 
> Private addressbook, as now.
> 
> Optional Common addressbook, whose location you specify (be it another
> file, or on a server, to ftp or whatever, so you can share between remote
> locations).
> 
> I'm not sure the automatic addressbook is needed if you (optionally!)
> select that any new address brings up a pop-up window - of the addressbook
> - so that you can either accept, mark as variant to another, or reject.
> If you don't select this, you can still add addresses to the addressbook
> in the manual way as before.
> 
> My automatic addressbook does seem to fill up with some junk at times.
> 
> Does this cover all the possible desires of others?  It keeps it simple
> for one-person users, common addressbook on one computer, or your remote
> requirement.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David Pilgram.
>