Re: Status of the CALSCH working group (Alarms/SEQUENCE)

["G. Barnes" <gsbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 Bruce_Kahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Greg replied on 11/10/2003 07:58:43 PM:

> > 2) As for what's the use of duplicate alarms, what if I want to send
> > myself 20 e-mail messages to make sure I get the hint?  Or have 5
> windows
> > opening with blinking text?  Who are we to say what a user might think
> is
> > useful?

[...]

> In any case, all of what you suggest can be done with autorepeating
> alarms:
>
>      BEGIN:VALARM
>      ACTION:EMAIL
>      TRIGGER:-P1D
>      REPEAT:20
>      DURATION:PT1S
[...]

I've mostly said what I wanted to say, and don't want to repeat myself
too much, but here, I must emphasize that you seem to be assuming too much.

What if
a) The CUA doesn't allow repeats?
b) Or doesn't allow repeats with a duration anywhere as short as 1 second?
c) Or allows them, but to get them you have to use some advanced function
   that the user doesn't know or doesn't want to know?

I fail to see the harm in duplicate alarms, and judging from the discussions
I've read in the archive, I think the matter was considered by many other
people, and unique ids for alarms were considered a good thing.  Yeah, sure,
we can reconsider it, but if you're interested in doing the simplest thing,
reopening old issues isn't what you want to be doing.

                        Greg Barnes
                        Computing and Communications, University of Washington
                        gsbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
                        (206) 685-3295