two gripes about Evolution ...

[pctech at mybellybutton.com]

--- "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz at simpaticus.com> wrote:
> At 22:32 12/15/2003, Clifford Snow wrote:
> >You can flag received messages that are important
> to you.  What you want
> >is the sender to determine how important messages
> are for the
> >recipient.  Let the recipient choose.  They can use
> the powers of most
> >mail clients to help them organize messages to sort
> their mail.  Don't
> >assume the sender has that right.
> 
> Oh, for Pete's sake!
> 
> <rant>
> This is not about "choice" or anyone's "right" to
> determine anything... and 
> by flagging a message as Important when I send it I
> am not forcing anyone 
> to do anything. Jeez... sometimes a cigar is just a
> cigar.
> 
> Mail clients that allow me (a.k.a. "the sender") to
> flag a message with 
> higher priority give me the convenience of
> indicating to the recipient that 
> this message is, for some reason, of a higher
> priority TO ME. Period, end 
> of story, no political, libertarian, or totalitarian
> subtleties. I can just 
> as well write "urgent" on the outside of a paper
> envelope.
> 
> Does this force the recipient to comply, give it
> special treatment, or even 
> acknowledge such a flag? Not at all. He/she can
> disregard it entirely if 
> desired. Or the recipient can actually pay some
> attention if, IN HIS 
> OPINION, a message that I consider urgent is to be
> treated differently from 
> other mail in any way. A case in point: when I send
> emails to my 
> subordinates, I assure you that they care about
> which messages I think 
> deserve a quicker response. Then again, other
> recipients may not give a damn.
> 
> And yes, when I receive messages, I _would_ like to
> know if the sender 
> considers a particular message to be more important
> than others. I may or 
> may not do anything about it, depending on who the
> sender is and how my 
> workload is, but I would like to know.
> 
> Removing or omitting the ability to mark sent
> messages with higher or lower 
> priority is NOT a good thing. It removes choice,
> which you so fervently 
> espouse. Having that choice does not force anything
> upon the recipient. 
> Evolution is going to lose points with most
> corporate users, and many other 
> folks, for not having this. Why-oh-why would this
> become an issue of rights 
> and choice? Good grief!
> </rant>
> 
> 
I agree completely.

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