Re: Devin's effort

--On April 21, 2015 6:56:11 AM -0400 Tanstaafl <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> On 4/20/2015 5:53 PM, Steven Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sounds a lot more complicated than copy paste.
>
> Really? It sounds like you're talking about doing the copy/paste every
> time you send an email. Am I wrong?

I only do the copy once to grab the address column from the spreadsheet I'm 
given. Then I do the paste once to create an address group in Mulberry. 
Then I send that group as many emails as I want. At the end of the term I 
simply delete the group in Mulberry and they're gone without a trace.

Steve

> I'm talking about doing it once, the first time you send an email to the
> class members, then an extra step of saving a generic version of the
> email as a template.
>
> From then on, to send an email to the class, you just dbl-click the
> template, compose the email and click send.
>
>> And I have a lot if classes (and other such temp groups) throughout
>> the year.
>
> So why not do it (copy/paste) just once at the beginning of the
> semester, instead of every single time you send the email?
>
> I'm seriously not - or mis - understanding you here.
>
> Or maybe you aren't understanding the power of email templates in TB?
>
>> Hence my question: why not let me just paste the list like I can in
>> Mulberry? In user interface design we try to change the system, not
>> the user. Copy/paste is so ubiquitous that it's what we expect will
>> work. So it should.
>
> As most of us know, open source software gets features that people who
> are capable of implementing them have a desire to implement. Apparently
> the ability to paste multiple email address in a list on the fly without
> the addresses having to be in the Address Book isn't something that
> someone has had a desire to implement...
>
> Maybe because they'd rather just use a template in such a use case.
>
> You do understand that doing this via a template does not require the
> address to be added to an Address Book (one of your requirements)?
>
> Again - maybe I'm missing something here?



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