On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Sushi wrote:
> >On 1/13/02 @ 10:48 PM, Eric Schneck wrote:
> >
> >The reason I am chiming in on this is that I was thinking
> >about another Names enhancement. Wouldn't it be great if
> >all of that Newton Intelligence (tm) could be applied to
> >the email address. It is almost impossible for me to get
> >the handwriting recognition to work accurately on an
> >email address.
>
> Interesting idea.
>
> While your idea would be a time saver, there are so many name conventions
> out there that it might be difficult to give the user a good selection.
> The user may end up spending more time editing the name than it would
> take to enter the name in the first place.
true, but having Firstname.lastname_at_company.com in a list would be a huge
timesaver - because so many companies use MS exchange, and that is its
format.
Now if this idea included the ability to specify formats (or even just
server names) for a given company, it would be even better (eg if you have
lots of contacts at one company - say, because you work there)
> Using your idea to build upon, maybe instead of the whole name
> suggestion, when the user enters the @ mark and first letter, say a then
> the Newt would fill in aol.com. If they entered m and a, then the Newt
> would fill in mac.com, or m and s then it would be msm.com.
As long as you could add to the auto-complete list as well... but most
lists on the newt you can add to.
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