I wrote:
> The technology was that there was a b-tree full of messages, and each
> message had a single UID. It was possible for the same message to
> appear more than once because the copies had different message-ids, but
> you could tell Babar that they were the same, and then you couldn't tell
> the difference. The second b-tree was indexed by folder/tag, and
> allowed you to find all the UIDs associated with it quickly.
Caio Chassot replied
Implementation aside, how is this different from how gmail works?
I hadn't used the gmail GUI much. I *do* use gmail accounts to forward
mail to my laptop, where all my mail lives. These days I'm nearly 100%
in Thunderbird (w/Nostalgy).
It looks like gmail has a reasonable implementation of this idea. Sorry
to interrupt the discussion; if this is in gmail, everyone must already
assume this is a requirement.
Chris
--
All sensory cells [in all animals] have in common the presence of
... cilia [with a constant] structure. It provides a strong
argument for common ancestry. The common ancestor ... was a
spirochete bacterium.
--Lynn Margulis (http://edge.org/q2005/q05_7.html#margulis)
Chris Hibbert
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