{"id":336,"date":"2007-08-22T19:43:57","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T09:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2007\/08\/22\/open-letter-developers-of-my-next-email-client\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T19:18:45","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T09:18:45","slug":"open-letter-developers-of-my-next-email-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2007\/08\/22\/open-letter-developers-of-my-next-email-client\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter: Developers of my Next Email Client"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>An Open Letter to the developers of my next email client<\/h3>\n<p>Dear Sirs and Madams,<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you about all the names of my friend.<\/p>\n<p>His real name is Herschel Schmoikel Krustofski (*Not his real real name).<\/p>\n<p>His email is <a  rel=\"nofollow\" id=\"sto_emailShroud0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/emailshroud\/emailaddress.php?encryptedAddress=moc%40%40ksh.elpmaxe&amp;ver=2.2.1\">hsk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When he sends an email, his email application includes a human-readable name in the SMTP headers. He has set it to &#8220;Krustofski, H. S.&#8221; He used to have it set to &#8220;herschel&#8221;, but he made it look more professional a couple of months ago.<\/p>\n<p>When I email him, I normally refer to him by his nickname &#8220;Krusty The Clown&#8221; because I have trouble spelling &#8220;Herschel&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Please do me some favours.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Please understand that these are all the same person.<\/li>\n<li>Please search in the Nicknames field when resolving email addresses.<\/li>\n<li>Please don&#8217;t <em>primarily<\/em> display the name that his SMTP headers have for him; please give priority to the name I entered for him.<\/li>\n<li>Please group all his emails &#8211; including his old ones &#8211; together when sorting.<\/li>\n<li>Please don&#8217;t include my nickname for him in the outgoing emails; he doesn&#8217;t need to know I can&#8217;t spell Herschel. The other people being cc&#8217;ed on the email don&#8217;t need to know I call him Krusty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yours faithfully,<\/p>\n<p>Julian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear developers of my next email client,<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you about all the names of my friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[71,69,50],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insufficiently-advanced-technology","tag-requirements","tag-software","tag-whinge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}