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Ted Leung on the air: Open Source, Java, Python, and ...
Tue, 07 Oct 2003
Ideas for e-mail
Rajesh Jain
reports on Steven Johnson's for an inbox that is organized according to statistics about the senders of the messages. I could imagine doing this using VM (an Emacs Lisp program) as my mail reader, but I can't see doing this with Thunderbird (client of the day), Evolution (tried that), or Outlook (it might be possible via VBA). Stuff like this is the reason that programs like Chandler need to be platforms and not applications.
Duncan Mak reports on an
improptu Pachyderm tutorial that Jim Gettys gave him. I took away three points from Duncan's take aways:
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- Multiple user interfaces would be nice
- Mail needs query language type capabilities including limiting
- Tagging mail with user defined attributes is a must (8 colors or labels isn't enough)
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