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Date:      Mon, 24 Mar 1997 16:52:57 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org>, langfod@dihelix.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Cool Web page interface to mail + search engine?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970324164559.2803L-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199703242123.OAA23531@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> I'm not.  I manually archive messages by topic (not subject) in elm,
> and then I don't need to thread them.  But unless someone is willing
> to do this for all messages, not just the ones they find interesting,
> and share the results, this isn't really a good global strategy.

...and the slight detail that no two people on the planet would
agree on a topic structure, much less how to distribute messages
among topics...

Well, we could adopt something like the ACM classification
system, but the second problem remains.

-john




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