> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 00:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Alan G Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> One enhancement I forgot to mention in
>> my earlier post. In (e.g.) the 'To:'
>> field please allow, say,
>> file:c:\list.txt
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wouldn't it be better or at least enough to add "import from file" command
> to ADB editor?
For me it would not be enough, although that wd also be welcome.
It is not just that you may have a "one time" list.
You may also be the recipient of volatile lists.
I think the reason emerges if you consider the following
example (simplified but real).
Today you receive a list of advisees names and email addresses.
You send mail to this list.
A week passes.
Now you receive an updated list.
Some students are added; some are dropped.
You need to send mail to this new list.
(You do not want to send to names that have been dropped.)
You need a quick way to overwrite the old list with the
new list, and my suggestion addresses this need.
I cannot see how use of the address book in this situation
could approach the convenience of my suggestion above. I
can imagine an interesting address book feature related to
this: an "Update address book from file" command that adds
*new* addresses that occur in a source file and offers an
option to delete those existing address-book addresses that
are not in the source file. While this would be a great
feature, even it is not nearly as convenient as simply
referencing the file in the "To:" field (or alternatively
the "bcc:" field).
Thanks,
Alan
PS Is the following an interesting idea for the address
book? As I have said, I think it is important to allow the
use of aliases. Without research on approaches to this, I
conceived of these as something like:
alias aliasname {nick1, nick2, ...}
In the address book it would be great to
have *two views* of this. Each nickname would list its
associations (i.e., the aliases that list it) and allow any
association to be added or deleted. But also each alias
entry would allow addition or deletion of nicknames (which
wd then affect the listed associations when one views the
entry for the nickname that was added or deleted). fwiw
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