On 12/19/00 5:48 PM, "Mervyn Sinaga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> From time to time I NEED to edit email. In my rush, the last thing I need is
> for email to mysteriously disappear (regardless of how logical the delete
> key is). Also, new users will have no idea where their email has buggered
> off to. Yes, angst and grief for many. Anyway, what's logical about having
> to press a button to edit when the email is already open and waiting for me
> to do my thing.
Here's what's logical:
1) If not for requiring the Edit menu item to edit, it would be all too easy
to accidentally delete or change email you receive. All you'd have to do
would be to touch a key, lean on the keyboard, or anything, and the email
would would be changed. You'd lose someone's real message.
2) There are devious people in the world. They could change messages on
other peoples machines. Or on their own machine, they could edit other
people's messages on purpose, not by accident. Without the "Edit" function
and icon, there would be no record of this.
3) Then everyone would sue everyone else, plus they'd all gang up and sue
Microsoft for 9 billion dollars for enabling this to happen.
All you have to do is select "Edit", for goodness sake. And all I'm
suggesting is that an alert dialog could appear to let you know that's how
it works (and ONLY if you press delete, not some other key) until the day
when YOU decide you don't need it - which in most people's case would be the
first time. So now you would no what to do, and you wouldn't have any more
dialogs.
Letting people "edit" without the edit menu item would be total disaster.
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Paul Berkowitz
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