[icon-discuss] Re: new features
- From: "Paul Henrichsen" <paulh52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 10:12:53 -0700
I tend to get 400-500 messages per day from the lists I am on. Of course,
most of them, I wouldn't reply to, but I might to ten or so besides the
messages I would send myself.
When I send these, I don't want to get any more mail on my unit because I am
home now and want that mail on my pc.
And the send immediately item does mean that you would be constantly
connecting and disconnecting from the wireless or staying connected the
entire time you are reading email.
Of course, this means send immediately would only work when you were within
wireless range.
On a plane or in a car, or bus, or train, or at someone's home where
wireless is not available or anywhere else wireless is not available means
this feature is useless.
Now, if you could read through all of your mail, replying to messages and
composing messages of your own then send them all at once without getting
any new mail on the unit, that is what I want.
-----Original Message-----
From: icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Terrence van
Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 3:29 AM
To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: new features
But what if the message you're working with would be the only meisage in the
outbox? The "send immediately"
option only appears when composing. It seems to me that what you're thinking
of would need to be available
throughout the e-mail program, without removing the "send immediately"
option.
Just my thoughts on this,
Terrence
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 22:42:21 -0700, Paul Henrichsen wrote:
>Yes, but you'd have to connect every time you wanted to send then
>disconnect.
>Here's a scenario for you. How would you handle this?
>You have been at ACB or NFB all week getting your mail on your icon. Now,
>you download your mail just before you leave for your flight home so you
can
>read it on the plane. On the plane, you read and reply to a few messages.
>You can't send immediately because there isn't any wireless on an
airplane.
>You can put them in the outbox just like always.
>Now, you get home to where you have wireless. You want to send your
>messages, but you don't want to pick up the perhaps 50 to 100 messages
which
>arrived the entire time you were flying home.
>What do you do?
>On a braille note, you could go into the email program and then exit. You
>would be asked if you wanted to send the messages in your outbox. If yes,
>you can then connect and just send those messages without receiving any new
>ones.
>With the icon, would could have been done was this:
>On exiting the email program, If the outbox contains messages, ask the user
>if he/she wants to send the mail contained there. If so, send, but don't
>receive.
>Another option would be:
>Add a number to the menu which would just say "send mail"; not send
>immediately: just "send mail. This option might only appear in the menu if
>the outbox contained greater than zero messages. Otherwise, it would not
>appear.
>Send immediately is nice, but only if you reconnect each time you want to
>send email; or remain connected the entire time you are going through your
>email.
>That only works if you have wireless access.
>Is it possible, Levelstar, to replace the send immediately with an option
>which would check to see if the outbox contained greater than zero messages
>and if so, offer to send them?
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Terrence van
>Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren
>Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 1969 6:25 PM
>To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: new features
>
>Not really; you can still choose to just put the message in your outbox;
>that's still an option just as it always has
>been. Also, you can disconnect once you're done sending.
>
>Terrence
>
>
>On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:24:31 -0700, Paul Henrichsen wrote:
>
>
>>Hi Levelstar and APH guys.
>>I was pretty excited about the new send feature until I realized it was
>only a
>>send immediately.
>>This means that you have to stay connected all the time you are reading
>your
>>email.
>>I was hoping there would be a new oqtion which would say "send" just below
>the
>>"send and receive" option.
>>If you want to use this new feature and you get a lot of email, you could
>be
>>connected wirelessly for
>>hours just so you could send without receiving amy more mail.
>>
>
>
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