Thunderbird Address Book feature next to useless

[Tim Wunder]

On 10/27/2004 9:07 AM, I believe that Net Llama! wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, James McDonald wrote:
> 
>>>On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, James McDonald wrote:
>>>
>>>><VENT_SPLEEN>
>>>>Regarding Thunderbird
>>>>    Can't export to VCard
>>>>    Can't attach an address as a VCard
>>>>    Can't copy and paste address text into an email...
>>>>
>>>>VCard project has just begun and no files released yet....
>>>
>>>vcards are so fscking lame & annoying.  Behind outlook usage in general,
>>>vcard is about the most annoying thing in email these days (other than
>>>spam).  What's wrong with a good 'ole sig file?
>>
>>Cross platform compatibility... VCards are a quasi standard and most clients
>>including Thunderbird use them. However the sig file is for an individual
>>no?
> 
> 
> Compatibility with what exactly?  vcards are a really poorly designed
> version of a sig file.  What does a vcard do that an ordinary, plaintext
> sig file can't?
> 

It can be used for importing information into an address book 
application. I'm fairly certain that KMail can have the user's 
KAddressbook updated from a vcard.
AFAIK, that can't be done with a sig file. There's no structure to a sig 
file that would allow for that.

Tim