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A comment on the discussion "Vote for Thunderbird extension / add-on ideas" in Mozilla Corporation:

There is a setting to save the email in the same folder that it was received in (Account Settings, Copies and Messages, Place Replies the folder being replied to). It's certainly not as cool, but if you're organized, it does nearly the same thing. – sairtesyob, on July 24, 2008 18:25

A comment on the idea "Combining erroneously created products" in Get Satisfaction:

Very nice! I think it will help tremendously to cut down on the excess inaccurate products. Great work. – Nathan, on July 22, 2008 22:57

Eric Suesz replied on July 22, 2008 18:03 to the idea "Combining erroneously created products" in Get Satisfaction:

Folks, I wanted to update you about our changes to the product-creation process. We've turned off the ability to quickly (and erroneously) create new products in the new-topic-creation process so that we'll end up with less bogus products. We think this will go a long way toward making things cleaner for company areas.

Thanks for weighing in on this for us. Very helpful!

A comment on the idea "Combining erroneously created products" in Get Satisfaction:

We already decided to do this, but it hasn't yet been deployed. – Cameron Walters, on July 21, 2008 18:36

Amy Muller replied on July 20, 2008 18:38 to the idea "Combining erroneously created products" in Get Satisfaction:

Hi Nathan,

I could see this working for companies that have active reps here but for those companies that either don't have reps at all or don't very active ones that are willing to put in the time to be sure all products are listed this would be tough. We don't have enough resources on our end to make sure that every company on GS has every product they make or service they offer listed. Which is why we have to leave it to the community. I wonder if it would work, though, to switch off the ability for general users to add products to a company when official reps have stated that they are willing to be responsible for doing so. That would certainly keep things tidier for the companies that care -- wonder if there'd be social implications, though. Hmmm....

Nathan replied on July 19, 2008 19:23 to the idea "Combining erroneously created products" in Get Satisfaction:

perhaps disallowing topic creators from associating their topics with products that don't already exist could alleviate the issue entirely?

Eric Suesz replied on July 19, 2008 19:18 to the idea "Combining erroneously created products" in Get Satisfaction:

Nope. The topics will remain if you remove a product. Understandable fear, but feel free to weed out anything extraneous. We're probably going to tighten up the product-creation process, since so many products that aren't really products are entered by users. We want to clear up this confusion so you can clean up your company's area.

Nathan replied on July 19, 2008 18:34 to the idea "Combining erroneously created products" in Get Satisfaction:

We have the same problem, as we already had a product set for default (http://getsatisfaction.com/flickchart...) - but a user created an undesired separate product anyway (http://getsatisfaction.com/flickchart...) - I was hesitant to delete the separate product if it meant deleting its associated topics

I got around this though by adding the correct product to the topic, and then deleting the unwanted product under my Account. But this is still a clunky way to achieve the goal.

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Brett replied on June 24, 2008 00:07 to the discussion "Vote for Thunderbird extension / add-on ideas" in Mozilla Corporation:

I'd really like to see the ability to open a file (possibly passing variable command line arguments) when an email matches a filter. In Mac's Mail, you can have it open an Applescript (I had it temporarily turn up the speaker volume and shout for me that I had an important email when sent by some people I was waiting to hear from), but on any OS, there could be some interesting possibilities...

A comment on the discussion "Vote for Thunderbird extension / add-on ideas" in Mozilla Corporation:

This would save us all SO much time (I used it constantly in Entourage 2004) and one I've been hoping for ever since moving to Thunderbird. And not only to have this for replies, but also a different kind for forwards (and when viewing the sent, drafts, or even deleted messages too seeing things like "this was a reply to..[click for message]."). Entourage added these as links at the top of the email being viewed which I think is a good place as it doesn't clutter the listing of emails (though it could be handy for some as an optional column on the tabular listing). I don't mean to suggest trying to copy the other guy, but this is really just one of those features that needs to be adopted, imso, and would be a similar leap forward as the new 'awesome bar' is in FF. – Brett, on June 23, 2008 23:18

A comment on the discussion "Vote for Thunderbird extension / add-on ideas" in Mozilla Corporation:

By the way, something in your reply caught my attention - So how might an idea-post in this particular discussion for example, get itself to be read by a developer/s? I ask only because getting developers to hear these ideas is the reason I started this thread. So if there isn't any link, then this thread of mine won't help anyone... hope you can give me some insight. Thanks again! – Rene, on June 23, 2008 05:43

A comment on the discussion "Vote for Thunderbird extension / add-on ideas" in Mozilla Corporation:

Yeah. I'll try to come up with static sample screens of what I'm thinking of... thanks! – Rene, on June 23, 2008 05:06

A comment on the discussion "Vote for Thunderbird extension / add-on ideas" in Mozilla Corporation:

Nope, but I'm not an extension writer and I have no pull, but maybe someone else who sees your request will see it. Might be a good idea to flesh it out on your blog. – Thomas, on June 23, 2008 04:47

A comment on the discussion "Vote for Thunderbird extension / add-on ideas" in Mozilla Corporation:

Hi again Thomas! I went ahead and installed the GTD gamil extension for Firefox and am using it on my gmail now. I think it's well designed to help you run your inbox according to the basic GTD principles. Yes, this is a big part of what I was thinking about when I mentioned a Tasks layer for TB. But while I know what it's doing and how, it's not quite "doing it for me". I think I am hoping that a TB extension would take it to a higher (more elegant) level. I think I'm really after a distinct Tasks view/layer, not just a re-think of how to use your inbox. Am I making sense? – Rene, on June 23, 2008 04:39

A comment on the discussion "Vote for Thunderbird extension / add-on ideas" in Mozilla Corporation:

Something like how gmail shows you your mail as "conversations" with all the reply-mails in a thread? Yeah, that would be good! I vote FOR this one – Rene, on June 13, 2008 02:53

ghettocottage replied on June 12, 2008 22:18 to the discussion "Vote for Thunderbird extension / add-on ideas" in Mozilla Corporation:

I would like to see an add-on that will show your reply to a message. So say for example I have replied to my friend Bob's email. It shows the green arrow next to it. Shouldn't I be able to click that arrow and have it bring up the sent message I just wrote, rather than having to go to the "Sent" folder and doing a search?
I have looked around quite a bit and cannot seem to find a plugin for this. I have seen this feature in another email program. I think it was the eMail program in Office 2004 for Macs...whats it called..eudora or entourage or whatever.
Anyway, would be a wonderful plugin.

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A comment on the question "How do I talk to negative people?" in Get Satisfaction:

I actually clicked your last.fm link this time (earlier it was just blind rage, which I can produce at will) and noticed that it seems to be users who don't see a benefit to joining another site (GSFN supports oauth now...). I noticed that the last.fm section here is actually used, and again, I'm going to say that just getting people to use it, even rogue style, goes a long way towards getting MORE people to use it. – Thomas, on June 10, 2008 23:28

A comment on the question "Is Get Satisfaction right for me?" in Get Satisfaction:

Todd: We don't have a newsletter, but you can subscribe to our blog: http://blog.getsatisfaction.com/. We try to keep it fun and readable! – Eric Suesz, on June 10, 2008 22:11