[189] in bug-owl
Re: Suggestions on message fields
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James M. Kretchmar)
Sat Jun 21 11:31:37 2003
Message-Id: <200306211531.LAA13061@mission-control.mit.edu>
To: David Glasser <glasser@MIT.EDU>
cc: bug-owl@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Jun 2003 01:19:49 EDT."
<200306190519.BAA25327@ziggy.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 11:31:36 -0400
From: "James M. Kretchmar" <kretch@MIT.EDU>
> (a) The personal filter should not include AIM login/out
> messages.
>
> (b) This will probably mean that filters should be able to
> check loginout.
>
> (c) Perhaps it should be OK to use any owl message attribute
> name in a filter.
>
> (d) Similarly, perhaps there should be an %owl::attributes.
I definitely agree with a & b and will have something out shortly to
do just that. I'm not sure about c & d yet since I don't know if I
want users to be relying on those attributes being standardized just
yet.
It does seem like a good idea to have in the future a set of standard
attributes that make sense across different messaging systems.
kretch
