On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:42:44 -0800, Roberto Machorro [RM] graced us with these comments: ...
RM>> I think that the "Inbox - Known" is a good idea Maybe it is, but to me it just seems like a typical case of software bloat and redundancy, albeit probably on a small scale here. Basically, what it seems to do if you enable the filter is to turn your normal Inbox into a *temporary* or *pending* Trash folder. Fine, but where is there any time or energy savings in that? (And before you are tempted to try and answer that question, read on please.) 1) If you are going to automatically delete everything that ends up in the normal Inbox (all of your unknown, not-in-your-AB mail), now calling your normal Inbox a SPAM trap, as some claim is the essence of this new feature, then why not send all that mail to the trash in the first place? (filtering so that non-AB mail goes straight to the dumper, rather than to a temporary dumper) 2) Obviously, the answer to the question at the end of number 1 is: "Because there might be something in there I want to see." But, if you are *not* going to automatically trash this stuff, but instead are going to give the mail that ends up in the normal Inbox a cursory glance before nuking it . . . well . . . that's what you would have done had *all* the mail that you didn't filter to specific folders ended up in your normal Inbox anyway, right? So, I don't understand the savings in time or energy. 3) If you *are* going to automatically delete, as in number 1, you now have to do it manually rather than automatically, I guess. :) The feature *does* sort mail into two major categories: mail that comes in that is associated with the AB and not sorted to a specific target folder, and mail that isn't associated or targeted. Maybe some of you get enough mail coming in that isn't associated with your AB *and* which isn't filtered immediately to other folders, to make this a big deal. Not me, however. What ends up left in my Inbox after normal sorting is a very, very small fraction of what comes down off the server in the first place. I suspect this is true with most folks, too. Additionally, I often get mail from people who are *not* in my AB, but who are responding to me privately off list from one or another discussion groups that I belong to. So, if I use the 'Inbox - Known' feature and filter, I can't simply ignore that normal Inbox "SPAM trap" folder as "stuff I'll look at when I have nothing else to do", because there might be something in there I'd want to read immediately. In short, I can't see I'd ever use the filter, nor the Inbox - Known. Seems like more work to me (another Inbox that *has* to be checked), rather than less. I'm sure somebody likes it, though. :) At the very least, I would not have enabled this feature on the install for new users, who it will undoubtedly confuse at first. It should be something that is normally invisible, but that can be activated if a user wants to mess with it, IMO. You complicate the *basic* interface; you lose potential customers, I suspect. What button is going up on the title bar next? :) Yuki mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60 / 1.60a FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
