On 5-feb-04, at 2:29, Keith Moore wrote:
I've attempted to collect a list of user-visible goals that people
have sent in and to loosely organize them. I've probably missed a few
by accident. I deliberately left out a couple of goals that I
couldn't see how to express from a user's point-of-view.
Anyway, take a look, and feel free to fill in any gaps you see.
What I'm missing:
- users want to be able to use email in ad-hoc environments where no
servers are available and/or make use of ad-hoc environments to
expedite mail delivery (especially of large messages)
- users want copies of their mail to be kept
- user don't want copies of stuff that's already sitting elsewhere to
be added to their mail copy store
- users want to be sure that mail they send is delivered unaltered
- users want automated format and maybe even language conversion where
appropriate
- users want to receive messages unaltered
- users want to see quotes of other messages
- users don't want to download quotes of other messages
- users want to be certain that quotes of other messages are authentic
- users want quotes of other messages to be suppressed or displayed in
a particular format
- users want to be able to request copies of messages that they know
exist but don't have (accidentally deleted, older message when new to
mailinglist)
- users want to know what happened to messages in transit
- users don't want all kinds of mail programs to insert their life
history into messages leading to excessive headers
- users want to be notified *immediately* when they have new mail
without having to activily check for it continously