Chad wrote:

> Why? - WHY?
> Because it makes *SENSE* to, that's why.

It makes absolutely no sense to include an email client in an office suite.

>spell-checker should draw from the same list of words.

That is what elm is for.

> It makes sense that since email is mostly words, and text documents are 
> mostly words, the interface should be similiar, if not identical.

But email and docuemtns are two completly different crittters. They
might have words in common, but that is _all_ they have in common.

It makes much more sense for OOo to be functionally equivalent to a
Dekstop Publishing Program, than to be functinally equivalent to an
email client.

>contact information (Names, emails, addresses, phone numbers,
birthdays, relationships,

Those datapoints belong in a databse.   How many email client can
reaed a _true_ database --- something thaty can be created and edited
using SQL?

> For these, and I am sure dozens of other reasons,

How many email clients can read MySQL, Oracle, FireBird, SQLite or
similar databases?

> it makes sense to have an email client as a part of your office suite, 
> whether that suite is

How can it make sense to include something, which is incapable of
using the tools it _needs_ to perform its function?

xan

jonathon
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Does your Office Suite conform to ISO Standards?

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