On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 11:09:54 PM, Daniel Hirning put together
what is below:
> I second the idea, personally I would love to see such a feature
> built-in to TB. The ability to assign shortcut keys to small scripts
> would be ideal, allowing me to do everything within TB
Hmm, imagine more:
- hotkey shortcuts, oh, yes, baby
- user-defineable and folder-assignable toolbar buttons
- why not a user-definable right-click menu section?
Possible uses:
Moderation aid: one-click message accepting or rejecting, powered by
counters linked to the sender's data and automatically sending out
"expel the user from the list" when more than 10 messages get
rejected)
Spamcop forwarding: a script could launch the Spamcop website, fill in
the forms with appropriate data, send it out, and delete the message
from TheBat.
Outbound message warnings: have a script analyze the message you're
about to send and for example warn you that you're using a
surprisingly large amount of strong language, "aren't you overreacting
a bit? maybe you should take a good look at the message again..?" or
"you're attaching files in a message that's about to be sent to an
address that is known for NOT accepting any attachments. Are you
sure?"
General reminders: addressbook entries scanning for birthdays or other
significant dates, warnings about overdue messages in the outbox ("The
message from John Doe, dated 1.12.02, was marked as important, and you
started to write a reply but it has been 3 days since then and you
still haven't sent it out!")
Text handling: select some text in someone's mail, and hit a hotkey
to add it to your taglines list. Manipulate various quoting schemes
with a user-defined function. Heck, maybe even run unspoken-language
mails through Babelfish or some other translator. How about manual or
half-manual fixing of broken threads by rewriting the In-reply-to: and
References: fields?
AND THE MOST IMPORTANT USE: all those things could be written as
plugins, so our RitLabs guys could safely wave off people's "feature
requests" with "oh, that... why don't you write a plugin yourself?" :P
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