> [mailto:general-bounces at open-xchange.org] On Behalf Of David 
> Cavallucci
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 6:03 PM
> To: General discussion
> Subject: Re: [OX General] shared contacts
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I can see the benefits from a couple of points
> 
> Firstly, for remote device sync or even outlook sync it would 
> be nice to only have to sync a relevant, small subset of 
> contacts for an individual, especially in a company with a 
> very large contacts list - rather then syncing the whole global list.

This is one of the issues I'm trying to address. In our company
the sales force and some of the management team use a CRM product
that operates this way. Before I move the president off this product
I need to figure out how he can have a subset of the global 
address book synced to his phone.

> 
> Secondly, for an individual who only uses a small subset of 
> the global contacts - it would be a time saver to click 
> "Contacts" and have only 20 or 30 contacts appear instead of 
> 1000 contacts listed and then have to search for it - but 
> that is more of a personal "browse vs search" thing I suppose.
> (for the "searchers" amongst us it is easier simply to leave 
> everything in one pile and use search to get the relevant contacts)
> 
> Having said that, I probably shouldn't speak on Jeff's behalf :)

No you summed it up well.