Re: [NTLK] Simple Mail / filter "is" -> "contains"

From: Jeremy Bond Shepherd (jbond_at_jameswhale.com)
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 14:45:30 PST

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I asked Simon Bell about this and he told me he prefers to keep "is"
because it's shorter and takes up less screen real estate in the
SimpleMail Prefs view, which is already densely packed. So that's his
reasoning.

-Jeremy

> Documented or not, this is an unfortunate bit of UI design imho. Why
> not *say* "contains''?
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