On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 danielv@netvision.net.il wrote:
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Ummm, what was the application again?
*** Bijan said : Thus, unless I'm confused or mistaken, I cannot share a categorization of a number of messages with someone else without sharing the particular message file (or subset thereof).
Bijan, could you clarify what you're trying to do?
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Sure. Let's say I make a category, 'foo'. Into it, I put a number of messages, sorted by hand.
Now, I want to share that category with you. Since, a category is a just a list of msgIDs, themselves bearing no inherent relation, If I just give you the category...no dice. My msgID won't match up *in any way* with yours.
Perhaps I'm being presumptuous. Normally, if you share a mail folder, I imagine you send the actual messages within. Bummer.
Email sucks! :)
But the total break between msgID and content, the arbitrariness of the association, *does* imho make categories a bit less useful. But maybe I'm hallucinating :)
Cheers, Bijan Parsia.