Finally somebody...
Yes, this is what I want. 

                        Andy

On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 15:13, Mark R. Bowyer wrote:
> There are two kinds of "Scripting in email clients", and I think people are 
> getting confused between them here.  I don't think *anyone* would say that 
> scripts in the emails should be supported - Andy says he's not looking for 
> javascript in mails right at the top.  The idea he seems to be putting forward 
> is like a step beyond the folders/vfolders operations we have already.  
> Something like "when I get an email from my boss with URGENT in the Subject, 
> play this sound".  You're scripting the way the mail client behaves based on 
> headers, but the user writes the scripts, not the sender of the emails...
> 
> This would indeed have many very cool uses, and would be a nice addition, while 
> hopefully not causing any security problems beyond what we might already have 
> with buffer overruns and stuff.
> 
> I for one, working for a large email-driven corporation, would immediately write 
> a script to look out for waves of people doing reply-to-all to a mass mailing, 
> and then another wave of people telling them not to reply-to-all, and then the 
> third wave of people telling the second wave that reply to all to say not to 
> reply to all just makes it worse...  and have it unsubscribe me from the alias 
> for 24 hours automatically.  God, that would be *so* cool... ;O)
> 
> Is that what people mean?
> 
> Ta,
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