Friday, January 07, 2000, 3:27:50 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Friday, January 07, 2000, Steve Lamb wrote:
>> Friday, January 07, 2000, 2:09:44 PM, Tim wrote:
>>> I doubt many people use the CC and BCC fields on most of the emails
>>> they send, however I expect most people enter a subject.
>> I'm willing to bet most people don't.
>> HINT: whenever I start a statement with "I'm willing to bet" I'm
>> willing to bet there is a catch to the statement you haven't thought
>> of yet.
> Care to tell me what, rather than writing such a cryptic reply?
Sure, most people hit reply and don't enter a subject at all as it is
automatically filled in by the client. Therefore most people don't enter a
subject. :P
> For anyone who sorts their messages by subject, the two 'threads' would be
> merged.
Tough luck. Doesn't mean there should be coddling for it.
Let me give you an example of how little chance you have of getting me to
"See the light." I have, in my professional career, deleted the root
partition of a mail server for a local ISP. For 5 *HOURS* I was at work after
that mistake rebuilding the machine while mail service was served solely by
the backup mail server. It was all because I entered the wrong directory and
did the "rm -rf" command.
Despite that (and other times that I've rm -rf'd in the wrong directory) I
do *NOT* like nor want a confirmation to pop up every time I rm -rf a
directory because 99.99% of the time I don't get it wrong.
99.99% of the time I do enter a subject. I don't need something to catch
the .01% special case for me. I'll deal with the consequences when they come
up as that is the path of least work.
>> As for having it optional, if everything were optional then the
>> options menus would be 1/2 the bulk of the programming.
> I'm not suggesting making everything optional.
Then why is it whenever anything is ever suggested someone usually pipes
in with "We could make it an option!"
Unless there is a very good reason for putting it in in the first place,
don't put it in. It's that simple. Not every program needs every little bell
and whistle and foofie reminder as an option!
> Other than you feeling it is unnecessary, what is it exactly that you
> have against this feature request? It would help me, others have said
> it would help them. It certainly wouldn't do any harm.
It does do harm. It is more space take up on the options menu, another
nag for people to get annoyed at, more time spent away from developing the
core client, more code and executable bloat. That is certainly not doing no
harm.
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