On 1/26/10 10:42 PM, "Jack Shedd" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> And, as John has pointed out ad nauseum, an email client that doesn¹t play >> friendly with any extant email servers will be about as useful as tits on a >> boar. > > "Playing friendly with existing email servers" is not the same thing as "how > we display collections of messages in the interface" or any other UI design > decision. Yes, it actually is, because part of that is doing things in a way that can be communicated by humans in such a way that someone who has never heard of letters can provide useful information needed to connect letters to their server. "What email client are you using?" "Letters" "huh, never heard of it, what's it use, POP or IMAP?" "IMAP" "Okay, so go to your account setup and..." "Letters doesn't have accounts, it has rules" "What?" "it doesn't have accounts. It has rules. It's a new paradigm" <head banging sounds> "Is there a place where you enter server information?" "Oh yes, the connector rule" <scotch drinking sounds along with a side of heroin> "Okay, I can do this. Can you go to your...connector rule?" "right, I'm there." "okay, for your incoming mail server..." "We don't have that" "lemme guess...we're in the wrong rule?" "Oh yes, see, that's the SERVER rule. You plug that into the CONNECTOR rule, and then that feeds mail into your INBOX rule. It's a new way of thinking." "tell you what. If you can find a mail client that doesn't have "Lego" in the logo, and we can both use the same words to mean the same thing, you call me back." <click> Oh the letters users will LOVE this new exciting paradigm -- John C. Welch Writer/Analyst Bynkii.com Mac and other opinions [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
