On 5/13/04 10:46 PM, Dan Crevier wrote:
> Someone could write a utility that has a rules like interface and
> generates AppleScripts for this sort of purpose.
I thought the application "that has a rules like interface" was supposed to
be Entourage ;)
But seriously folks, in what century can we expect nested logical
expressions in rules? Because maintaining 500 rules like this:
1. if sender is a and subject contains foo ...
2. if sender is b and subject contains foo ...
3. if sender is c and subject contains foo ...
4. if sender is d and subject contains foo ...
...
499. if sender is se and subject contains foo ...
500. if sender is sf and subject contains foo ...
gets really, really, really old...especially when the "foo" clause changes
:P
Even the "consumer" version of Retrospect (yes, Retrospect, the ages old,
originally classic Mac OS application) supports nested logic in its filter
GUI. And yet an "advanced" email app like Entourage--email! the biggest
single flow of information most users have to filter and organize!--still
doesn't support it. (Or does it in 2004? Prove me wrong, please! :)
That kind of sissy "too complicated for our stone-dumb users" attitude may
be fine for Apple Mail (haha, j/k Cricket, back to work on that "from
<person in address book>" rules feature, right? :), but the mighty
Entourage? C'mon...
-John
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