At Friday, May 11, 2001, 8:52:59 PM, Stefan scribbled the gibberish below:
ST> [+] Each account can have its personal default address book
Still, there is NO way to protect any overlapping entries, not to mention
any privacy in the address books. If my Bat! station was used by 3 people
of my family and each wanted to have a "john" nickname in the addressbook,
The Bat! would still return the first "john" found, instead of the one in
the current address book.
IMHO this could be solved first by searching the "assigned" address book
first, and (optionally) any "shared" addressbooks (which could be another
on/off setting in an address book's properties).
There is another problem, however - the "group selector" in the "add to
address book..." filter action lists the full list of groups, regardless of
what address book they're in. Now this is horrible when there're two users
and each wants to have a group called "friends"...
And, while we're at the address book, as it's impossible to create two
groups with identical "unique" names, why is it possible to make them
indistinguishable by giving them identical NAMES? I mean, group "My
Friends" (id: "friends") and group "My Friends" (id: "myfriends") coexist
happily even though one is completely identical to the other...
ST> [+] Interactive address adding
This could REALLY use an additional "accept this setting for the remaining
entries" checkbox. If somebody does a mass add, for example, highlights
their 1500 mails in the Sent folder and hits "add recipient to AB", then
they're in for 1500 "Cancel" clicks, or 1 minute of holding the ESC key.
I realize that the "add to address book" form is the standard one - so this
"accept for all" checkbox could simply be hidden or grayed out when using
the form in the normal way... or something...
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