Re: Need ideas about better ways to manage private messages.

I agree with bart. This sounds like a job for a ticker client, rather than something to gum up the default user interface with. Message Inbox is already plenty complex for the majority of use cases.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^2: Need ideas about better ways to manage private messages. by demerphq (Chancellor) on Nov 26, 2005 at 09:26 UTC
I dont understand how the message ticker helps here. How doe it make it easier to manage my inbox? How does it help me delete out old messages? Sure I could download my private messages using it. But that doesnt get me that much. Im still going to have single select over 1600 items and delete them. Ok, sure I could put on my god hat for a minute and handle it in the DB directly but how would this help other users? My Inbox is big because quite simply the tools available to manage it are so poor. If there were better tools to manage it I would already have emptied it out. --- $world=~s/war/peace/g	[reply]
Re^3: Need ideas about better ways to manage private messages. by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 26, 2005 at 13:48 UTC
You can write code to do all that in your ticker client, can’t you? Ie sort by dates, group by sender, etc; whatever you want. There is a unique ID per message that the client can use in opcodes sent to the server if you click a delete button, hopefully? As a bonus, you get to beat around UI ideas in a working application to see if any of them are simple enough that they’re worth implementing on PerlMonks. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]