Re: One user, many addresses

At 20:50 04/02/01 -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:

>But it doesn't understand the concept of "here is my identity, choose the 
>contact point that is easiest/fastest/most-appropriate/etc" -- a modern 
>MUA, for instance, might look for "Brett Watson" and if you are logged 
>onto AIM, send it to you there, fall back to your yahoo messenger account, 
>and if you're not there, e-mail it to you at nutters.org. And if I flag it 
>at a certain priority or higher, also poke your SMS address with a notice 
>that the message was sent and you need to look at it.

>(if you want, you can make this kind of "dispersed identity" as complex as 
>you want, with work and personal addresses, hours for when to use which at 
>what priority, etc -- and then mail magically routes where it ought to be, 
>when it ought to be. If you jump outside the box of "how we do it now" and 
>start thinking about "what can we make possible", it really creates 
>opportunities to consider, even if we decide not to....)

More functionality in this direction definitely would be great.
I know of people who already have a setup more or less like this.
Unfortunately, neither the current things nor the future setup
will work without quite a bit of human involvement (whom do I allow
to send me high-priority mail,...) on both the sender and the receiver
side.


Regards,   Martin.