Hello vitalie, On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:48:40 +0200 GMT (05/03/2007, 07:48 +0700 GMT), vitalie vrabie wrote:
>> Interesting. PDFs are attachments, seperate documents, and must not >> contain the body of the mail. Let's continue this on TBOT. vv> no, it isn't quite OT. lemme argue. OK. vv> not necessarily for them to be treated as attachments only. they're just vv> parts of the message. sections. Technically yes, but in an office environment the problem is that they have to be opened seperately by double-click. An invoice may be attached as a PDF, that makes sense, but the message body should be in the - body - of the message and shown in the preview pane. vv> they can be of any mime-describable format, not only text/plain. vv> yes, it may be even postscript, macromedia flash, audio... if the vv> particular application needs so. Yes, they can. I don't want to see those in an office environment though, and the "Christmas Greetings" get deleted without opening the attachments. But other people may have other needs or wants, so I don't want to outlaw those attachments. vv> yes, there's a whole lot of potential documentflow-related applications vv> that may perfectly fit onto email-based transport, that go far beyond vv> the imagination of any single individual. Correct. We have data interchange with one customer where the data is exchanged as attachment to email. Well, let the sysops discuss the sense of that. vv> why not? vv> it's just a matter of time. As for message bodies being only in attachments, yes, it's a matter of time how long I need to open an email. It's just not efficient. vv> all in all, i would agree that anything not email-related shouldn't be vv> assumed for an email client. vv> yes, i mean things like RSS. vv> or, should we not call it an email client... :) I agree with that insofar as RSS should be made available only as a plug-in. This way, those who want it can plug it in. For example, I use TB! for newsgroups, with the MyGate plug-in. It's enough for my needs, and I don't want to fire up a newsreader software for the 10 postings per day that arrive in all my newsgroups combined. Others won't want to see NNTP capability is an email client, so they just don't download that plug-in. Heavy users of the usenet will want a newsreader with scoring capability and whatnot and won't be happy with what TB!+MyGate can do now or in the future. Everybody is happy with the plug-in solution. I believe someone reported using TB! for RSS newsfeeds a few months ago by way of some self-written plug-in. I think it was on TBOT, let me search later on. vv> after all, Mozilla has decided, though, for the browser and the vv> mail client to be separate products and not an all-in-one suite as vv> it was years ago since Netscape. Yes, OK. For functionality that I use often, I want a specialised software. For functionality that I use seldomly, a plug-in into an existing software can do the trick. Hence, I vote for an RSS plug-in for those who want to use it. I'm not interested, so I don't need to download it. Once again, everybody is happy. -- Cheers, Thomas. "You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough bucks or buy her a big ring and her own VCR, 'cause she'll want to have videos of the wedding." (Jim, 10) http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/ Message reply created with The Bat! 3.95.6 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.98.03 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
