Re: Due date reminders from tracker

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>]

In message <5DAE05B8-22E4-11D7-B91E-0003934B2128@cisco.com>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pat
rik_F=E4ltstr=F6m?= writes:
>
>On onsdag, jan 8, 2003, at 05:57 Europe/Stockholm, Randy Bush wrote:
>
>>> Would anyone find periodic emails like this useful?  (perhaps with the
>>> state instead of the AD if they're unicasted to the AD...)
>>
>> if i had any semantics attached to the due date, i might.  but i
>> currently do not.
>
>I don't either.
>
>What I _would_ like though is for example a reminder when a new version 
>of a document exists, but the state is still "waiting for new version" 
>in the tracker (and other events like this).
>

That's one of two things I want.  The other is some way for other ADs 
to list items of theirs that I'm on the hook to review or rereview.  
That was what "responsible" was supposed to be, but it was inadequate 
-- it could only list one person.

The list in its current form isn't very useful to me.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
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