On 8/9/05 at 5:49 PM, Tim Lapin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:

>On   Tuesday, August 9, 2005,   Mikael Byström   sent forth:
>
>>**Resent as it didn't make it to the list in July**
>>
>>It's hard for me to tell others how to build mail filters, though I know
>>how to of course. Wouldn't be useful for less experienced email users to
>>have a wizard for this, like we have for spam filters? Perhaps something
>>like this in the works?
>>
>>PM 5.2.1 | OS X 10.3.9 | Powerbook G4/400 | 768 MB RAM | 30 GB HD
>>
>>
>
>Oh God no.  Please no wizards of any kind.  Rather put in place a proper
>help section.

Wizards are a software invention to band-aid badly designed software.
This is why Microsoft has a Wizard for everything.


>However, while we're on the subject of filters, how about nested or
>complex filters: e.g.:   (A or (B and C))?

Hear here!



Steve Abrahamson
Ascending Technologies
FileMaker 7 Certified Developer
        http://www.asctech.com
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