On 2/1/2004 8:40 PM, Keith Moore wrote:
State the issues in entirely non-technical terms. What enhancements
do we seek, in terms that are visible and important to end-users and
to operators? No reference to protocols or formats is permitted.
Talk only in terms of user interactions and operator actions.
That's an excellent idea.
I don't disagree, but I think that it would be more appropriate to
describe 'user-visible goals' as the human-to-human subset of email-ng.
More specifically, I think we should be examining the applications and
their requirements, with human-to-human communications being one such
application. Hopefully we also want to facilitate machine-to-machine
communications and explore their requirements as well.
A global objective would be 'auto-configure submission settings using
nothing more than the email address and/or identifier object as input'
A machine-specific version of that feature might be 'reduce the number of
data elements that must be configured and maintained'
A human-specific version of that feature might be 'don't make me type in
the server's IP address'
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