Oddly, the interaction was not what I expected. I expected to click the link and see who Dave is. While I recognized the name, at 5:45 this morning I could not place him (sorry Dave)... but clicking the link immediately accepted his invitation.
Mark On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Evan K. Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On the other hand, there is no way to distinguish between these >> passive additions to my email history vs. those I've actually WANTED >> in my contacts. B/c of this, I don't even bother managing my well >> over 2000 contacts (and no I'm not that popular and I'm not a >> stalker). > > This problem has been intriguing/haunting me for a while... especially > since I've been using Thunderbird as my email client. > > It has a related problem in which if you want to show images from > certain emails for "approved addresses" (like, for instance if I want > images to appear from emails from Crate & Barrel or whatever), those > email addresses have to be added to one's address book. This just seems > silly to me. > > The same goes for contacts and memorized email addresses -- on the one > hand, it's convenient for the client (or GMail) to remember addresses, > but I don't necessarily want *everyone* to whom I've > contacted/replied/forwarded an email be added to my contacts list or > address book... > > I'm definitely in agreement with Dave that there needs to be a > "convenience limbo" where those addresses I've used before can be > brought up easily when I need them, but it's separate from my *actual* > contact list. And I should be able to move them from the CL to my > address book easily. > > grrr... > > ///eks > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
