jbb
Sat, 11 May 2002 09:49:14 -0700
Dear Folks,
Exactly what is wrong with living life as if there are still some
surprises? The idea that discovering, after the fact, that an address
is needed is a normal occurance. Inevitably, the address is still
available. Why does the program need more code which will contain bugs
and cause unanticipated results? The secret to good programming is
simplicity. Please, don't get into silly featuritis.
Just because Bill has it does not necessarily mean its desirable.
Shalom,
John B. Brown.
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On Sat, 11 May 2002 18:00:15 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Well, the idea of the automatic book is to make live easier - automatic.
> For example if I receive emails from a customer I don't want to add him to
> my addressbook but sometimes I need to write him some days later when I
> already removed his mail or it was moved to the received folder.
>
> So in this case I always have to press a button to add this address - which
> I won't do.
>
> However, the automatic book can be disabled in the general prefs. Maybe a
> feature should be added to remove old entries or not ofter used addresses
> from the automatic book. But that's not that easy.
>
> Different books a all is a problem - the object design is not made for this
> and so would require a big change in the whole program (or all parts where
> an addressbook is used).
>
>
> Jürgen
>
> David Pilgram wrote:
>
>> Dear Jürgen,
>>
>> At the moment there appears to be a private and an automatic addressbook
>> for xcmail. Personally, I'm not convinced by the automatic one, it
>> contains errors (e.g. when I mis-typed an email address, it turns up in
>> there), and sometimes parses addresses incorrectly.
>>
>> I said in an earlier thread that instead of an automatic book, there
>> should be the choice to add the new address into the existing book(s).
>> But that this feature is, itself, optional (just like the automatic book
>> is now).
>>
>> ----No: Do nothing.
>> |
>> Automatic ---| ---No: Do nothing
>> Entries | |
>> ____Yes: ---On new email address---|
>> Add to addressbook |
>> | ---Yes: Add to [selected]
>> addressbook.
>>
>> Hope that explains what I mean.
>>
>> BUT still have more than one addressbook, e.g. Personal and Work, which is
>> why I put in [selected] in the tree above.
>>
>> Some people may want an addressbook that they can then email between say
>> work and home, and keep updated; make *one* of those available to do so.
>>
>> I'm reasonably happy with the way that I made two accounts share
>> addressbooks, but it's not perfect, and occasionally an update is
>> over-written by and older version when the other account closes down. A
>> small drawback to a much larger advantage. But the email-able version may
>> also be able to be used in this guise as well.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> David Pilgram.
>>
>
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