Nick Simicich wrote: > And whose "non-standard's based calendar wins?" Alternatively, "When do > you want to meet?" in a plain text message works everywhere.
Everywherishness isn't important to me. Auto-checking the availability of conference rooms, conference call lines, and projectors is. > If you are scheduling meeting rooms, then you can assume assent if no > one else is meeting. Not without a scheduling system that auto-confirms for the room, and allows higher-priority people to bounce you. > If you are scheduling people, you need buy-in....unless they work for > you and you can order them to go. So automated scheduling simply does > not work across organizations. I use it betwen *companies* -- the fact that they can have it automatically show up on their calendar as a tentative appointment and use that to address conflicts is a great boon. > I can never see a situation where it would be appropriate to deliver a > presentation by e-mail that a URL to a web site would not be superior. When I want the presentation material to end up at their end, of course. And when I only one the content making one trip over the net rather than every time they ned to view it. > Especially not in the mailing list context. A mailing list is nothing but a delivery strategem (store-and-forward) with an addressing mode (broadcast) over a particular set of protocols. Nothing about that seems inappropriate to me. >> I totally disagree. Again: if a list also meets off-list or by chat, >> integrated scheduling would be a boon. For that matter, delivering a >> usable Java or ActiveX chat thin-client in a message body would be as >> well. > > Suicidal. Microsoft has even turned off active X and Java by e-mail by > default. Fix the problem, don't throw your hands up. I *want* the damn thing to be able to start by itself when it is opened or previewed.
