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From: "Martin Duerst" <duerst(_at_)w3(_dot_)org>
To: "Hector Santos" <winserver(_dot_)support(_at_)winserver(_dot_)com>
At 02:21 04/02/03 -0500, Hector Santos wrote:
This in-directly brings up an issue of the "message-id", its purpose.
This brings me to an idea I had some time ago:
I would like to be able to merge the headers of a message that I got
over two or more ways back together. As an example, I get a message
personally from one of you but also over the mailing list. I would
like my procmail not just to eliminate one of them (the one that
arrives later, or whatever that would be), but to combine the headers
of these two mails back together so that I have all info about how
the mail reached me in one place.
So in other words:
o mail-ng should have easy support for "message tracking"
o mail-ng should have easy support for "message dupe processing."
o mail-ng should have easy support for "message threading."
I separating them because "historistically" it was a debated on which one is
more important. I was on the camp that felt it should be all of the above
(you know, "kill 3 birds with one stone"). Right now, it is mostly used
(if possible) for threading email (Reply-id: not required for email) and
required for threading/dupe processing on news mail. The devil is in the
details, of course.
Of course this is only possible with a structured header format.
No comment <g>
More along these lines would be headers that allow to add comments
to a message, or to overwrite things such as the subject without
destroying the original subject, and so on.
In addition to:
o mail-ng should have easy support for "Non-destructive Original Subject
Reply System."
I love that word "easy." Sort of like a hint for designers. :-)
Please accept my apology for changing the subject line. I felt this is where
the idea of "re-merging" begins - message tracking.
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Hector Santos, Santronics Software, Inc.
http://www.santronics.com