Re: [Leica] and no [Leica] (leica2)

[jimbrick@photoaccess.com (Jim Brick)]

Email programs have been around for a long time. They are all very
sophisticated now. Even the freebies that you can download. They allow
filtering of messages. The mainstay of email programs, EUDORA, has had
filtering for years. A filter will add color to, route to a specific
mailbox, and LABEL your email messages. Filters can do a dozen different
things to incoming and outgoing messages. So by having the server ADD a
label, many of us now have two labels, Eudora's "LEICA" at the beginning,
the LUG server's [Leica] in the subject. And it moves the subject line
over, sometimes obscuring part of the subject line. If nothing else, 99% of
the email programs will route filtered messages to specific mailboxes. All
LUG messages will appear together, with nothing else mixed in. Or if you
just color them, or just label them, the email filters do a fine job of
allowing you to sort or separate your messages making them readable without
conflict. My LUG messages are blue, my BMW messages are red (stop!!! no
comment please!), my Digital photo messages are brown, my Stockphoto
messages are green. And they are all routed to their own mailbox.

Being a computer person for 33 years, I realized early on that data
manipulation and alteration should be left to the discretion of the data
recipient. The sender (or server in this case) should not impose an altered
structure. The receiver should be allowed to do this for him/her self.

What we have now, with Leica2, is the best of both worlds. leica-users for
those of you that don't have or can't use filters, and leica2 for those of
us who, from the get-go, have filtered and separated our own email.

Many many thanks again Brian,

Jim

Brilliant Red BMW 530iT ! The item with the most red won. The red BMW wagon
would make about 250,000 red dots.

Jim

At 07:17 AM 10/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Brian:
>
>It appears to me that you went to a lot of trouble to satisfy a minority.  I
>just don't understand why anyone would object to the Leica tag.
>
>Regardless, thanks for caring.
>
>Bob Bedwell
>