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samrolken replied on November 23, 2007 14:21 to the question "Does bcc'ing Sandy invite everybody else in the conversation?" in I want Sandy:

Can you give an example of when someone would cc Sandy, but not directly address her? How might that be useful?

samrolken started a conversation in I want Sandy on November 23, 2007 14:15:

keeping it simple

Reading through the many things posted here, I see a lot of feature suggestions that definitely seem useful, and at first glance might seem like a no-brainer to add in.

I applaud the Sandy team on keeping it simple. It would be relatively easy to add many of the requested features. It's not easy to stay focused on a simple, elegant application, and decide on the perfect balance between usefulness and complication.

samrolken replied on November 23, 2007 14:03 to the question "Does bcc'ing Sandy invite everybody else in the conversation?" in I want Sandy:

Nevermind.

Now that I think about it a little more, I realize that the worst someone could do is add stuff. Retrieving or deleting items wouldn't be possible, even when spoofing the email address.

samrolken replied on November 23, 2007 13:54 to the question "Does bcc'ing Sandy invite everybody else in the conversation?" in I want Sandy:

It would be nice if there were a way to include Sandy in an email, as if addressed in the cc or to fields, without revealing the secret address used to contact Sandy. I thought bcc would work for that, but the way it actually works does make sense when I think about it.

I guess in a way you're trusting your human contacts receiving the email not to prank Sandy by spoofing your email address and telling her to forget everything. But as emails get forwarded and saved and printed and whatever, I can't help but wonder about the possible shenanigans.

Although it does seem like a low-risk thing, are we protected by any clever anti-spoofing measures?

samrolken replied on November 23, 2007 13:42 to the idea "Sandy's email address" in I want Sandy:

The custom address used for Sandy is obviously an intentional feature. If there were only one address used by everyone (like, sandy@iwantsandy.com), it would be trivial to mess with peoples' accounts, and the service would simply not work.

When sending email, there is no mechanism that authenticates the sender of the email.

samrolken replied on November 23, 2007 13:22 to the idea "Personalize my assistant" in I want Sandy:

Just my $0.02, but I think it's fine just the way it is.

samrolken replied on November 23, 2007 12:59 to the idea "Sandy should say "you're welcome" when I thank her" in I want Sandy:

I did notice that Sandy is unfazed by being asked nicely to do things, such as:

Please remind me blah in 3 minutes. - works
Gobble remind me blah in 3 minutes. - doesn't parse

However, putting please at the end doesn't work:

remind me about nothing in 4 minutes, please. - creates an item called "Nothing please"

samrolken replied on November 23, 2007 11:53 to the idea "tracking packages" in I want Sandy:

Yes.

samrolken started following the idea "Sandy should say "you're welcome" when I thank her" in I want Sandy.

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