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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>
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Subject: Re: Cool Web page interface to mail + search engine?
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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