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I was thinking about how useful it'd be to have a small app in outlook that
sits in the background and watches your patterns then suggests implementation
of rules / other. (To be honest, this kinda thing would be hella useful in
EVERY app, but anyhoo) For example: every time i delete an email from my
junkmail folder from (e.g.) Viatrex advertising penis enlargement or
whatever, the app would log it. After a preset (but adjustable) limit is
reached, the user gets a pop saying something like "you have deleted emails
from this sender without reading them for the last 6 months" / "you have not
read the last X emails from this sender / host before deletion"- "do you want
to block this sender / host?" "do you want to create a rule to auto-delete
these emails?"
similarly: "every time emails from this sender have arrived in junk you have
moved them to inbox, do you want to outlook to move them there automatically?"
IDEALLY, this user-info file could be pasted to hotmail / yahoo / whatever
so that blocked senders in outlook are blocked at the server, a move which
(if widely implemented) would cut out a lot of spam traffic without too much
work for the user. Similar automations: "you tend to send emails to specific
contacts, would you like to create a group of these contacts [listed]?"
Now obviously things like that are already available to the user: simply
create your own groups. BUT: the automation aspect would make computers more
attractive to the novice user, who'd get higher-end use & productivity with
lower-end knowhow, and also to higher-end users who'd be able to tweak their
patterns-recognition apps to their needs and benefit from gaining time: i bet
you guys are the same as me in that the more you know about computers the
more time they seem to consume, not necessarily for any great benefit.
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sits in the background and watches your patterns then suggests implementation
of rules / other. (To be honest, this kinda thing would be hella useful in
EVERY app, but anyhoo) For example: every time i delete an email from my
junkmail folder from (e.g.) Viatrex advertising penis enlargement or
whatever, the app would log it. After a preset (but adjustable) limit is
reached, the user gets a pop saying something like "you have deleted emails
from this sender without reading them for the last 6 months" / "you have not
read the last X emails from this sender / host before deletion"- "do you want
to block this sender / host?" "do you want to create a rule to auto-delete
these emails?"
similarly: "every time emails from this sender have arrived in junk you have
moved them to inbox, do you want to outlook to move them there automatically?"
IDEALLY, this user-info file could be pasted to hotmail / yahoo / whatever
so that blocked senders in outlook are blocked at the server, a move which
(if widely implemented) would cut out a lot of spam traffic without too much
work for the user. Similar automations: "you tend to send emails to specific
contacts, would you like to create a group of these contacts [listed]?"
Now obviously things like that are already available to the user: simply
create your own groups. BUT: the automation aspect would make computers more
attractive to the novice user, who'd get higher-end use & productivity with
lower-end knowhow, and also to higher-end users who'd be able to tweak their
patterns-recognition apps to their needs and benefit from gaining time: i bet
you guys are the same as me in that the more you know about computers the
more time they seem to consume, not necessarily for any great benefit.
----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...129ceed52&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.general