Re: Address Book in Eudora
Re: Address Book in Eudora
- Subject: Re: Address Book in Eudora
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 20:52:20 -0400
On 08/21/2002 19:48, "Mark J. Lilback" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I especially love the ..."and many more secret..." part" Luckily, other
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> email apps decided to place their power in the UI, not in idiotic hidden
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> settings that are a sign of rather rampant insecurity.
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I love the way Eudora does this and wish other applications would.
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Most apps are too oriented towards the newbie and against the Power
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User. Eudora has more power in it than any other program and that's
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why I've never switched to any other program (and I've tried all that
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support IMAP for at least a few weeks).
Then why not make them *obivous*? Supersecret codes, especially ones that
say "DON'T TOUCH" are *dumb*. There is no loss of power by making these
features easily and obviously accessable.
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Every application should have every possible setting customizable
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like Eudora does -- I make it a point to do so in my applications.
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Most users will never need them and they would clutter up the
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interface. But exposing them to the power user is a wonderful thing.
Then why not have a setting that is called "Power User Settings" and place
them in there? What's the reason for not clearly placing them in the
dictionary.
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As to the dictionary, yeah, it leaves a lot to be desired. It's been
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the standard example to a developer of a bad scripting dictionary for
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as long as I can remember.
Which is of course, my point.
john
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