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RE: IFX> Re: IPP> REG - Proposal for "job-recipient-name" Job Tem plate attribute

From: McDonald, Ira (imcdonald@sharplabs.com)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 15:16:51 EDT

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    Hi Michael,

    Sold - I like your clarifications.

    Cheers,
    - Ira

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Michael Sweet [mailto:mike@easysw.com]
    Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 6:18 AM
    To: McDonald, Ira
    Cc: Hastings, Tom N; ipp (E-mail); QUALDOCS DL (E-mail)
    Subject: Re: IFX> Re: IPP> REG - Proposal for "job-recipient-name" Job
    Template attribute

    "McDonald, Ira" wrote:
    >
    > Hi Mike,
    >
    > Here's a way to have our cake and eat it.
    >
    > The attribute 'job-recipient-name' is specified to be
    > a person's full name, network user name, or whatever
    > name's descriptive to humans (but NOT meant to be
    > parsed by automated software).
    >
    > A different attribute 'job-recipient-role' could hold
    > 'none', 'operator', 'admin', 'technician', etc. for
    > jobs that need to reach someone who fills a particular
    > role in the local network environment. If the attribute
    > type was (keyword | name) then we could also let users
    > specify roles like 'accounting', 'payroll', etc.

    Now *that's* a good idea! :)

    I'd only ammend this to add an empty job-recipient-name attribute
    means that the actual recipient is unknown, and a member of the
    job-recipient-role attribute should be used instead.

    -- 
    ______________________________________________________________________
    Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products                  mike@easysw.com
    Printing Software for UNIX                       http://www.easysw.com
    



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