Re: CAP-12-e: Alarms and SEQUENCE

Doug wrote on 11/03/2003 04:38:17 PM:
> > I claim that this is a non-sensical / practical case to use.  (Plus 
> > its the only one I could think of too.) 
> 
> So in other words - you can't make it work.

I claim your example is not one thats worth considering because its 
non-realistic.  As I pointed out before its not a feature that exists now 
(unless you've got some product now that has it) because its just not 
something people do in practice.

Please explain the real need or benefit of having two identical VALARMs on 
the same entity that do the exact same thing and repeat the exact same 
number of times??  They are indistinguishable from each other to users 
("Gee was that WAV the 1st AUDIO alarm I set or the 2nd??") so there is no 
benefit in them.

Why would a CU want to have 2 AUDIO alarms that play the exact same WAV at 
the exact same time and autorepeats the same number of times?

Does users really want to have multiple dialogs popup at the exact same 
time with the exact same contents and autorepeat the same number of times?

Who here realistically wants to have an email notice sent multiple times 
at the exact same to the exact same invitees and autorepeat the same 
number of times?

Ive never ever once heard a user say "Gee, I wish I could set 10 alarms 
that all do the exact same thing at the exact same time on this particular 
meeting.  Why cant I?"  Just as in iCalendar we said that all repeat 
instances that have the same date/time values are a single instance I 
claim the same is true for VALARMs.

If your alarm clock at home has 2 alarms on it, do you set both of your 
alarms for the same time in order to avoid sleepting thru that big 
meeting?  Or do you stagger them in case you hit Off instead of Snooze?  I 
for one stagger them, just in case.

Bruce
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