--- "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 22:32 12/15/2003, Clifford Snow wrote: > >You can flag received messages that are important > to you. What you want > >is the sender to determine how important messages > are for the > >recipient. Let the recipient choose. They can use > the powers of most > >mail clients to help them organize messages to sort > their mail. Don't > >assume the sender has that right. > > Oh, for Pete's sake! > > <rant> > This is not about "choice" or anyone's "right" to > determine anything... and > by flagging a message as Important when I send it I > am not forcing anyone > to do anything. Jeez... sometimes a cigar is just a > cigar. > > Mail clients that allow me (a.k.a. "the sender") to > flag a message with > higher priority give me the convenience of > indicating to the recipient that > this message is, for some reason, of a higher > priority TO ME. Period, end > of story, no political, libertarian, or totalitarian > subtleties. I can just > as well write "urgent" on the outside of a paper > envelope. > > Does this force the recipient to comply, give it > special treatment, or even > acknowledge such a flag? Not at all. He/she can > disregard it entirely if > desired. Or the recipient can actually pay some > attention if, IN HIS > OPINION, a message that I consider urgent is to be > treated differently from > other mail in any way. A case in point: when I send > emails to my > subordinates, I assure you that they care about > which messages I think > deserve a quicker response. Then again, other > recipients may not give a damn. > > And yes, when I receive messages, I _would_ like to > know if the sender > considers a particular message to be more important > than others. I may or > may not do anything about it, depending on who the > sender is and how my > workload is, but I would like to know. > > Removing or omitting the ability to mark sent > messages with higher or lower > priority is NOT a good thing. It removes choice, > which you so fervently > espouse. Having that choice does not force anything > upon the recipient. > Evolution is going to lose points with most > corporate users, and many other > folks, for not having this. Why-oh-why would this > become an issue of rights > and choice? Good grief! > </rant> > > I agree completely. ===== -------------------------------------------------------------- "Never memorize what you can look up." -Albert Einstein
