09/29/2002 12:30 AM Aaron Lawrence venit, vidit, dixit: > For example, to add a CC: I have to click in the box under the first To: > (and not any of the other boxes!! grr) to activate the box, then click > again to drop down a list of types of header, find CC:, click on it, > then click to the other field to enter the address.
Maybe one could save one click by changing the UI a bit. But the rationale is: 1 click is enough to get a field of the same type that you have already. This is very convenient for the case when you add multiple cc's or multiple bcc's. For adding a single field of different type the "click overhead" doesn't matter, for multiple fields it does. The most convenient way to add many addresses to whatever fields is address book anyways. > You get one To: field, one CC: and one BCC: > > At the end of each field, is a little [ + ] button which adds an > additional field of this type, under the current one. > > In addition, typing a comma adds a new field of the same type. > > You can add as many fields you like of each type, leaving them blank if > you like, and Moz should ignore the blank ones when sending. > > Once additional fields added, perhaps a [ - ] button would delete them. > > The main disadvantage is that this means tabbing thru three fields to > get to the subject. No, this overloads the interface, makes the most common cases (one header resp. multiple headers of the same type) more cumbersome. ANd, what about the (common) headers reply-to and followup-to? > Also, giving the field types more descriptive names might be helpful, > like "Copy To" "Blind Copy To" "Reply Address" Arrgh, this is MS think. Do you want to rewrite headers of incoming messages as well? Let headers have their standard names. "cc" is so common everyone knows from *standard mail communication", and the other two you don't understand any better in long form either - unless you know already what it does, in which case you know the name of the header. Michael -- NETSCAPE 6: snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.netscape6.windows snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.netscape6.macintosh snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.netscape6.unix NETSCAPE 7: snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.netscape7.windows snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.netscape7.macintosh snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.netscape7.unix MOZILLA: snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.mozilla.user.win32 snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.mozilla.user.mac snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.mozilla.user.unix snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.mozilla.user.general Don't forget to enable SSL in the news account. Good sites to check: Netscape FAQs: http://www.ufaq.org Netscape 6/7 Tips: http://www.hmetzger.de/net6e.html Netscape 6 FAQ: http: //home.adelphia.net/~sremick/ns6faq.html Netscape 7 Help/Tips: http://techaholic.net/ns7.html Web page validation: http://validator.w3.org About Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org
