Nick Simicich wrote:
> And whose "non-standard's based calendar wins?" Alternatively, "When do
> you want to meet?" in a plain text message works everywhere.
Everywherishness isn't important to me. Auto-checking the availability
of conference rooms, conference call lines, and projectors is.
> If you are scheduling meeting rooms, then you can assume assent if no
> one else is meeting.
Not without a scheduling system that auto-confirms for the room, and
allows higher-priority people to bounce you.
> If you are scheduling people, you need buy-in....unless they work for
> you and you can order them to go. So automated scheduling simply does
> not work across organizations.
I use it betwen *companies* -- the fact that they can have it
automatically show up on their calendar as a tentative appointment and
use that to address conflicts is a great boon.
> I can never see a situation where it would be appropriate to deliver a
> presentation by e-mail that a URL to a web site would not be superior.
When I want the presentation material to end up at their end, of course.
And when I only one the content making one trip over the net rather
than every time they ned to view it.
> Especially not in the mailing list context.
A mailing list is nothing but a delivery strategem (store-and-forward)
with an addressing mode (broadcast) over a particular set of protocols.
Nothing about that seems inappropriate to me.
>> I totally disagree. Again: if a list also meets off-list or by chat,
>> integrated scheduling would be a boon. For that matter, delivering a
>> usable Java or ActiveX chat thin-client in a message body would be as
>> well.
>
> Suicidal. Microsoft has even turned off active X and Java by e-mail by
> default.
Fix the problem, don't throw your hands up. I *want* the damn thing to
be able to start by itself when it is opened or previewed.
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