Quoting Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Michael (by way of gfdsa ) wrote: > > > Hi Dear All, > > > > So well, pressing on "Yes" in "You didnt edit this message, are you > > sure you want to send it?" warning is imho annoying... > > Then if you want to send long diatribes, feel free to use e-mail or > initiate a chat. ICQ was designed to be an instant messaging platform, > not one for long-winded conversations. > > The 450 character limit is perfectly reasonable, and I very seldom go > over it.
I totally disagree with you. ICQ is a communication tool, period. It's not well suited to writing long documents, but to artificially impose a limit on the length of messages sent is silly. Just because YOU don't like getting long ICQ messages doesn't mean that the rest of the world should have to answer to a program with an annoying user interface; my computer should do what _I_ want it to do, not what _YOU_ want it to do. Besides, there are plenty of times when you might want to send a long message. The whole world doesn't use IM style abbreviations; I always IM in full sentences. Why should the program decide that I'm being too wordy? Anyway, we can please everyone by making that dialog box configurable. If it has a "don't ask me again" checkbox on it, everyone who hates the dialog box can banish it, and those who like the dialog can keep it, and then we all get to have a tool that works how we like it. > > FWIW; sending a message that's about 1000 characters or so can be done > with four keystrokes; > > Ctrl-Enter, Enter, Enter. > Why 4 when it can be done with 2? The extra ones are a pure waste. > Takes all of half a second, and it's just a little reminder that you > should probably chill out on your outgoing traffic; remember that the > person on the receiving end just might wind up hearing "Uh-Oh Uh-Oh > Uh-Oh" from you for it. > If they don't like hearing "uhoh", they can turn it off. Not my problem; my computer doesn't make the noise when I send messages. > For the record, I hate when people do that to me. It's reasons like that > that made me decide to disable OnEvent sounds; but it's still annoying. > What's annoying is when a computer program tries to be smarter than the user, and fails. > -- > Stewart Honsberger > http://blackdeath.snerk.org/ > ICQ: 3484915 > -- Mark Richards ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ LICQ-Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/licq-devel
