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While Notes was justifiably hated, I had two somewhat good experiences with it. 1. The recurrence model for meetings and the like was way more featureful than

While Notes was justifiably hated, I had two somewhat good experiences with it. 1. The recurrence model for meetings and the like was way more featureful than anything I've seen since. 2. The CEO of my company at the time dictated that the Notes devs/admins change the email interface such that in order to click "reply-all", you had to navigate to a separate screen. This all but eliminated all stupid company wide email storms, and should be in every email client. For that we paid a heavy price in CPU and Memory use, as is Notes wont.

azinman2 8y ago
Meanwhile I’ve had so many frustrating experiences of group conversations amongst a few people where reply all doesn’t get pressed, and then the conversation bifurcates. I’ve always thought reply all should be default.
- bluGill 8y ago
  When there is only a small number of people yes. When someone sends a message to the entire company no.
- kbenson 8y ago
  It seems like the simple solution is to detect when there is more than one address that a reply could go to, and if so, on clicking reply have a sub-meny that asks whether you want to reply to all or one person (and maybe list recipients with the Sender at the top). You still get a single click to reply for single senders, but any ambiguity needs to be dealt with, but usually only with a quick additional click. I routinely experience this where I want to reply all in my work Gmail, but the default is reply to sender, and I end up having to re-send the email a few seconds later so everyone sees it (if I'm lucky and notice. Otherwise other people just never see what I intended them too).
nradov 8y ago
The ability to customize the mail application was a blessing and a curse. Notes applications had no real "source code", it was just one big binary blob. So if you forked one of the built-in applications it was extremely difficult to merge your changes back in after IBM released upgrades.
jiveturkey 8y ago
come on, who doesn't love a great email storm !

azinman2 8y ago

Meanwhile I’ve had so many frustrating experiences of group conversations amongst a few people where reply all doesn’t get pressed, and then the conversation bifurcates. I’ve always thought reply all should be default.

bluGill 8y ago
When there is only a small number of people yes. When someone sends a message to the entire company no.
kbenson 8y ago
It seems like the simple solution is to detect when there is more than one address that a reply could go to, and if so, on clicking reply have a sub-meny that asks whether you want to reply to all or one person (and maybe list recipients with the Sender at the top). You still get a single click to reply for single senders, but any ambiguity needs to be dealt with, but usually only with a quick additional click. I routinely experience this where I want to reply all in my work Gmail, but the default is reply to sender, and I end up having to re-send the email a few seconds later so everyone sees it (if I'm lucky and notice. Otherwise other people just never see what I intended them too).

nradov 8y ago

The ability to customize the mail application was a blessing and a curse. Notes applications had no real "source code", it was just one big binary blob. So if you forked one of the built-in applications it was extremely difficult to merge your changes back in after IBM released upgrades.

jiveturkey 8y ago

come on, who doesn't love a great email storm !