[dev] my IMP broke [ User Preferences Grouping ]

[Jon Parise]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:36:15PM +0100, Atif Ghaffar wrote:

> > Seriously, that's a blanket statement that doesn't carry the
> > argument by itself. Yes, modularity is a good design goal. But
> > there are always tradeoffs, and if no one plans on adding
> > customized preferences to IMP, it might not be worth it.
> 
> Prefs is one place where more and more people would see the need to
> add/remove fields.  Example: If you are running a freeWebMail
> server, you may want the users to have a secret Question + Answer.
> You might want to store their mobile number (if you are offering sms
> service) You may want to store their fax number etc etc.
 
Those sound like pretty valid examples to me.

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