Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!know!slug!wex From: wex@dali.pws.bull.com (Buckaroo Banzai) Newsgroups: comp.groupware Subject: Re: Groupware Effects on Hierarchies Message-ID: Date: 19 Jul 90 21:31:22 GMT References: <1990Jun24.130413.16511@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <2092@east.East.Sun.COM> <1990Jul1.210621.13137@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1984@aurora.cs.athabascau.ca> <1989@aurora.cs.athabascau.ca> Sender: news@pws.bull.com Organization: Bull Worldwide Information Systems Inc. Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: dali.pws.bull.com In-reply-to: janssen@parc.xerox.com's message of 19 Jul 90 00:50:44 GMT In article janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) writes: The willingness to consider a "pencilled-in" appointment might be stronger than we think. What if we could see "scheduled events", which we have not committed to, on our calendar? Someone sent me email with a similar suggestion. I don't think this would work because it would lead to the person who scheduled the meeting having too high a degree of uncertainty. She'd have to go around and ask everyone whether they were coming or not. This would lead to a huge decrease in the value of the information on the system which would lead to people stopping using it. I think. -- --Alan Wexelblat Bull Worldwide Information Systems internet: wex@pws.bull.com phone: (508) 294-7485 (new #) Usenet: spdcc.com!know!wex "The aim of life, its only aim, is to be free. Free of what? Free to do what? Only to be free, that is all."