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Re: New Internet Draft: draft-duerst-archived-at-00.txt

2004-10-28 01:52:54

At 02:35 04/10/28, Keith Moore wrote:

>I guess the question is this - do you want the archived email messages to
>be usable as email messages, or do you want them to be a part of the web?
>It's very difficult to do both, because web browsers tend not to support
>message/rfc822 very well.

They wouldn't have to. Web browsers can easily be configured to hand
off documents of a specific media type to another, external, application.
Assuming that your email client can handle message/rfc822, you would just
set that as that external application.

>I'm not surprised if W3C is good at making email messages a part of the
>web.

Thanks! [I'm actually not sure we are that good; things could work
even better.]

>But it also shouldn't be surprising if people who care about email
>want archived email messages to have the functionality we've come to
>expect from email messages.

I'm not surprised. I think it's a good thing. I just don't think
you should impose your expectations on others.


Regards, Martin.

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