On 04/08/15 10:27 AM, "Mickey Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> -- I'd also just giggle with glee if I could set the outgoing mail account
>> in a new message via keystroke. I freakin' hate using the mouse (or any
>> pointing device when forced to), and yet thirty, fifty, seventy or more
>> times a day I have to mouse up to select a different outgoing account (I
>> manage over 400 email addresses, and do a lot of mail every day).

Ummm. Typo. Make that '40'. 400? Sheesh. 40+ is scary enough, thanks.
> 
> Did you try Paul Berkowitz's "Account & Signature Shortcuts" script for
> this?  It's very handy for this purpose.
> <http://www.scriptbuilders.net/category.php?search=Signature+Shortcuts>

Yes, it's interesting, and effective for some, but it's a great big annoying
kludge where proper adherence to Mac OS behavior should have been in the
first place. That I should be expected to go find and install an obscure
third party script, then go find some third party OSAX, then go through a
tedious process of generating a script for every account I have (see above),
plus remember to regenerate a new script anytime I create a new account,
then assign (and remember) a keystroke for each one, is just insane when
some simple, standard programming behavior would have allowed me to Tab to
the account popup, press 'Return', press the first letter or two of the
account name or at least arrow key my way through the menu, press 'Return'
again and I'm done.

>> What really needs to be done is a website with user-submitted feature
> Microsoft is implementing this into their newsgroups
> <http://communities2.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx
> See this page for details:
> <http://communities2.microsoft.com/library/gallery/components/wn/3/locales/h
> elp/help_en-US.htm#GiveMSFeedback>
> It hasn't yet been implemented officially in the Mac groups, but the Mac BU
> do monitor this mailing list as well as the newsgroups for feedback.

I haven't seen this in action yet, so I'll reserve judgment until I see it
working (or not), but I fear from the posted text that no one in charge of
that list is going to work very hard to be sure similar feature requests are
properly consolidated to insure voting blocks are as large as they should
be. From the warning text, I suspect that if people fail to search properly
(or, more likely, a search fails to return prior suggestions that are
similar), that a valid popular feature could be split into too many voting
blocks, and fall through the cracks because whomever is running it will rely
on their own technology to only show them the highest voted items.

I also wonder how public, let alone how valid, the voting results will be.

Then there's the whole 'gotta play the .Net Passport game' just to be
allowed to maybe have someone listen to you. Pardon me if I don't feel like
giving MS my CC and/or other personal data just so I can suggest a feature
for software I've already paid for.

Why must MS do, rather, make us do everything the hard way?

> I agree, but I think that it might not be feasible for Microsoft to fix
> every bug for free, especially considering that some bugs are rarely
> encountered and some affect a small number of users, and that these bugs
> might take a disproportionate amount of money to fix properly.

God I get so sick of hearing that excuse. How many other industries are
allowed to raise that dirty flag and make us cower, as though we're to blame
for the dirt ourselves. How many other industries can get away with building
defective products they have no obligation to fix, and people just keep
coming back for more, hoping they can buy their way clean. One day I hope
that software users as a whole gather together and say, 'Enough. we've paid
you for a fully functional product, and you're not getting another dime out
of us until you fix what you sold us and it performs as promised, intended
and expected.'

Am I really the only one who uses Office Notifications? Am I the rare
occurrence that isn't worth consideration? Am I the only person who has ever
been maddened on a daily basis at the embarrassment that is the Office
Notifications window behavior? I think what is disproportionate is what I am
being charged for what I have received at times.

Frederico

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