Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 12:36:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> To: Jon Rust <jpr@vcnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IE for FreeBSD Petition Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005221218550.28809-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <p04310172b54f1b914628@[209.239.239.22]>
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Well if you do not want to recieve it after you have it once, that is one thing. Not ever wanting it is another. I understand that it is wasteful getting it each time with each email, but email really is not all that sophisticated. But here are set of enhancements which may be good to put in a new RFC. Once you send an email, that address is looked up in your own address book. If no record exists, a header can be added to that email which requests that data. The recipient of the email would then automatically log that you do not have his/her full info and have the option to send it to you in a future email. This could all be done transparently. You could be building an address book database without even entering the data manually. When you need the info, it is there. Of cource this could be easily be turned on and off if you never wanted to request these records. They could also take some other form, not vcf format. Another feature I would like to see with this vcf files is a vcf-modified-time which would simply go in as a header which would let your address book database know if the record you have is current. In essence, you could keep current record on all of your contacts transparently. If you were using a system which has this ability, you could update your work phone number and address and over time each of your contacts would be the update. The ones you interact with the most often will always stay updated. And just to take it a step further, each email server could have an address like vcf@host.com where people get automated responses with vcf information. If your domain is a business or some other kind of information it could contain key contact information. Given these new abilities, email could become a very sophistiated system. A distributed database perhaps. I am sure there would be some privacy concerns. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? On Mon, 22 May 2000, Jon Rust wrote: > At 12:12 PM -0500 5/22/00, Brennan W Stehling wrote: > >I do not mind the vcf attachments all that much. It is nice to be able to > >get an address book entry sent to you with each email. Perhaps there is a > >better way, like appending that information to the existing email headers, > >but this way works ok. > > Why is that nice? > > a) I don't want it - EVER > b) If you do want it, do you really want it every time you receive a > message from the person? Isn't once enough? > c) Is it really that hard to just ask the person for the information > (at which point they can attach a vcf or whatever to send to you)? > > > jon > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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