RE: [Simple] Status summary
"Ben Campbell" <[email protected]>
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It seems to me this concept is still more intended for _human_ consumption. It would be dangerous to provide any protocol semantic or other automatic processing based on the assumption that I will be back at a certain time, unless we build in explicit expiration times for the piece of state. So, all of the following can be handled by some sort of "away" status that contains a human readable comment (or some other indicator for user display purposes only). > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Tony Hansen > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 1:15 PM > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Simple] Status summary > > > One aspect that hasn't come up yet in this conversation is something > someone said at the ad-hoc mtg in MN: the temporal aspect of the various > types of OPEN status messages. Why do you choose to use one message over > another? Usually it's to give the others an idea of how quickly you'll > respond. > > Some of them mean "I'm doing stuff, but will probably respond to your > message pretty quickly." (T = a couple minutes) Examples: Busy, On the > Phone. > > Some of them mean "I'm going to be gone for a while." (T = 1/2 - 1 hour) > Example: Out to Lunch. > > Some of them mean "Don't expect me to respond for hours." (T = 2-4 > hours) Example: Away, In Meetings. > > Some of them mean "Don't expect me back for a long time." (T > 4 hours) > Example: Out for the weekend. > > When you go international, Out to Lunch doesn't mean a whole lot to > anyone but English speakers. But specifying an expected time to be gone > set at .5-1 hour certainly does translate well. Time is a pretty > universal concept, and might be worth codifying as part of the status > information. > > Tony Hansen > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > simple mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.dynamicsoft.com/mailman/listinfo/simple [reminder: [email protected] for non-technical discussions, please]