Re: [Fed-Talk] Blocking Email Addresses
Re: [Fed-Talk] Blocking Email Addresses
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Blocking Email Addresses
- From: Dave Schroeder <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:50:42 -0500
Do you receive phone calls multiple places to the same number other than on your iPhone?
Do you receive your email in multiple places to the same address other than on your iPhone?
"Email address blocking" and "phone number blocking" are not analogous things, with the former being such an obvious addition. In a situation where you may have many clients (web, mobile(s), desktop(s), etc.) this is not something appropriate for the client, but rather for the server. You only receive phone calls in one place.
Yes, it has been included in mail clients over the years, but falls down when you need that capability in multiple places, because there is no "standard", per se, for email filtering. Email blocking/filtering/sorting/spam protection/etc. is most effectively implemented on the server side of your email service of choice.
(And yes, I am aware of clients which offer this functionality exclusively on the client side, but unless that is your ONLY client and/or are willing to devote SIGNIFICANT amounts of time to duplicating your rules across clients, it doesn't make sense. There are very few people who use a mobile as their primary/only email device.)
- Dave
On Oct 8, 2013, at 12:39 PM, "Villano, Paul A CIV USARMY TRADOC (US)" <email@hidden> wrote:
> The same reason Apple allows blocking calls while it could be done by AT&T or Verizon as well. Or why Apple adds (fairly useless) photo filters when Photoshop app does it. And on and on. It's part of the consumer experience which should be important to Apple.
>
> It's sounding as if your argument is not so much "we can't" but "we didn't/won't bother." As with the call blocking, it would make sense.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: fed-talk-bounces+paul.a.villano.civ=email@hidden [mailto:fed-talk-bounces+paul.a.villano.civ=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Dave Schroeder
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 1:35 PM
> To: Amy Forinash
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> Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Blocking Email Addresses
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> I'm aware of the general filtering capabilities of email clients.
>
> Why should a mobile email client offer the ability to "block" email addresses?
>
> - Dave
>
> On Oct 8, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Amy Forinash <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Email filtering has been available for years for relatively small email apps such as pine. I'm pretty sure the iPhone I carry in my pocket is a more powerful computer than the Ultrix machine I used in the early 90s. Why should my mobile email app not allow me to filter or block as I wish? I do think it makes sense to implement.
>>
>> -amy
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>> On Oct 8, 2013, at 9:42 AM, Dave Schroeder <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> "Email blocking"? That's not something that makes sense to implement in a lightweight mobile email client on any mobile OS. Better to use an email provider which allows *server*-side filtering, blocking, spam rejection, etc.
>>>
>>> - Dave
>>>
>>> On Oct 8, 2013, at 8:22 AM, "Villano, Paul A CIV USARMY TRADOC (US)" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>>> I was very happy to see iOS7 finally added call blocking (though like insects, telemarketers will just find another way to get at you). But I’m surprised there’s no email blocking yet. I hope it’s in the next update (as well as putting the fonts back where low vision folks can use them more easily again).
>>>
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