Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-06-11 Thread Daniel Barclay
Chris Davies wrote: Jochen Schulz wrote: ... In my experience, many web forms just don't accept plus characters in email addresses at all. Daniel Barclay wrote: Then those forms are broken (not accepting e-mail addresses properly), right? Yes. But that doesn't help those of us needing to e

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-06-11 Thread Chris Davies
Jochen Schulz wrote: >> ... In my experience, many web forms just don't accept plus characters >> in email addresses at all. Daniel Barclay wrote: > Then those forms are broken (not accepting e-mail addresses properly), > right? Yes. But that doesn't help those of us needing to enter information

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-29 Thread Erwan David
Le Sat 29/05/2010, Zhang Weiwu disait > On 2010年05月28日 05:05, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > Yes, and it's an interesting trick you thought of. > > > > But, wouldn't the CDCSS people all send mail from the same domain? This > > way you can just filter on the domain part of the From: e-mail address,

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-29 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2010年05月28日 05:05, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Yes, and it's an interesting trick you thought of. > > But, wouldn't the CDCSS people all send mail from the same domain? This > way you can just filter on the domain part of the From: e-mail address, > or am I missing something? > But I am also

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,27.May.10, 20:09:13, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > As explained the tag in email address is to convey information from my > user to me. Since my user knows my email address, that is the only place > where the tag can be. I can ask my users to include tag in subject but > they will not always rememb

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-27 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 27 May 2010 20:09:13 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > On 2010年05月27日 12:32, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Email headers are the canonical solution for this type of problem. >> >> However, I can't discover any method by which one can add ad hoc >> headers to individual mails using Outlook, Thunderbird o

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-27 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2010年05月27日 12:32, Ron Johnson wrote: > Email headers are the canonical solution for this type of problem. > > However, I can't discover any method by which one can add ad hoc > headers to individual mails using Outlook, Thunderbird or Gmail. > The difficulty is not to add ad hoc header to my em

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-27 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:32:51 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > On 2010年05月25日 15:48, Camaleón wrote: >> Hard to tell as you are not providing many details :-) > > Perhaps culture difference does play a role in this. Or perpahs you didn't properly explain your main goal. Sub-addressing (+) is a very

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2010 09:32 PM, Zhang Weiwu wrote: On 2010年05月25日 15:48, Camaleón wrote: Hard to tell as you are not providing many details :-) Perhaps culture difference does play a role in this. Thanks to wide use of cyrus-imapd and gmail among local technicians, I took it self-evident that the plus

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Zhang Weiwu put forth on 5/26/2010 10:53 PM: > On 2010年05月27日 11:43, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >> This is the exact opposite of what I stated. How can you make the above >> statement, given my original post? >> > > I feel this is an English problem. I said: >> For example, Stan Hoeppner thought

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-26 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2010年05月27日 11:43, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > This is the exact opposite of what I stated. How can you make the above > statement, given my original post? > I feel this is an English problem. I said: > For example, Stan Hoeppner thought the email address is designed to be > readable, duplica

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Zhang Weiwu put forth on 5/26/2010 9:32 PM: > For example, Stan Hoeppner thought the email address is designed to be > readable, duplicating the use of DisplayName. This is the exact opposite of what I stated. How can you make the above statement, given my original post? Stan Hoeppner put fort

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-26 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2010年05月25日 15:48, Camaleón wrote: > Hard to tell as you are not providing many details :-) Perhaps culture difference does play a role in this. Thanks to wide use of cyrus-imapd and gmail among local technicians, I took it self-evident that the plus symbol in an email address is a tag to trigg

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-26 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2010年05月25日 15:48, Camaleón wrote: > Hard to tell as you are not providing many details :-) Perhaps culture difference does play a role in this. Thanks to wide use of cyrus-imapd and gmail among local technicians, I took it self-evident that the plus symbol in an email address is a tag to trigg

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Daniel Barclay: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> ... In my >> experience, many web forms just don't accept plus characters in email >> addresses at all. > > Then those forms are broken (not accepting e-mail addresses properly), > right? Sure. J. -- I like my Toyota RAV4 because of the commanding vi

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
Jochen Schulz wrote: ... In my experience, many web forms just don't accept plus characters in email addresses at all. Then those forms are broken (not accepting e-mail addresses properly), right? -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.) [F] -- To UNSUBS

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Rick Thomas put forth on 5/25/2010 12:55 AM: > > On May 25, 2010, at 1:43 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> To try to jam all of that information into the smtp address itself is >> silly. >> Again, this is what display names and sigs are for. > > Silly, perhaps for you or me, Stan. Not so for someb

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-25 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 25 May 2010 12:02:11 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Hello. In our company we use a email naming convention like this: > > Zhang Weiwu on Holz Project > > Problem being when a special email address is needed for Office IT, it > become too long for many web forms and email clients: > > Zhan

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 25, 2010, at 1:43 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: To try to jam all of that information into the smtp address itself is silly. Again, this is what display names and sigs are for. Silly, perhaps for you or me, Stan. Not so for somebody from another culture, where the chain-of-command from

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
Zhang Weiwu: > Hello. In our company we use a email naming convention like this: > > Zhang Weiwu on Holz Project > > Problem being when a special email address is needed for Office IT, it > become too long for many web forms and email clients: Are you sure that the problem is the length of the

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Zhang Weiwu put forth on 5/24/2010 11:02 PM: > Hello. In our company we use a email naming convention like this: > > Zhang Weiwu on Holz Project > > Problem being when a special email address is needed for Office IT, it > become too long for many web forms and email clients: > > Zhang Weiwu the

(OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-24 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. In our company we use a email naming convention like this: Zhang Weiwu on Holz Project Problem being when a special email address is needed for Office IT, it become too long for many web forms and email clients: Zhang Weiwu the support engineer of Office IT services of ICD SS So what