Mimi Yin wrote:
- What about subscribing to and Setting up Mailing lists. If we had UI
in Chandler for users to "Subscribe" to mailing lists, would this be a
better "model" for helping users understand that they can "filter"
mailing lists into their own collections automatically, the same way
they can have separate Inboxes for each email account.
I think mailing list subscription is pretty non-standard - there are a
few major systems for open-source mail, but I think most are a
haphazard set of different combinations of putting "Subscribe" in the
subject line, in the body, signing up on a web site, etc.
However, opera mail handles this rather well - it seems to identify
common mailing list headers in your existing mail (which are also
non-standard, but perhaps easier to detect) and creates virtual folders
for each mailing list you're on.
Alec
1. It seems to me that these are all different flavors of
essentially the same user activity: Get stuff in and out of my PIM.
2. Some basic things you will want to be able to do with all of these
scenarios:
a. Specify which collection(s) you want the data to go in. (What are
some usage scenarios for wanting the same data to go into multiple
collections?)
b. Specify more than one "data feed" into a single collection (ie. I
may want to have a San Francisco collection that subscribes to multiple
public events calendar feeds from different sources. I may have a
single collection for all mailing lists I subscribe to.)
c. Specify which "Sphere" you want the data to go into. "All my
personal items", "All my spouse's items", "All my work items", "All my
public items", et cetera...
What are some other common affordances we would want to support?
Mimi
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