On 24 Oct 2013, at 22:18, Lyndon Nerenberg <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Oct 24, 2013, at 10:13 PM, chad <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Beyond that, email messages are generally large (compared to calendar 
>> entries, anyway) collections of text. Changes to messages mostly involve 
>> small deltas to metadata. Managing changes to changes to changes based on 
>> revisions and times isn’t trivial, but a lot of the automation 
>> (conceptually) has already been written.
> 
> I would really like to see evidence of this claim.  My experience of 
> manipulating email messages says otherwise.

I saw it a lot when I still used MH, but that was years back, when
8-10k messages a day wasn't unusual, and I was doing all my own
spam filtering. Modern usage patterns might be very different,
certainly.

Out of curiosity, what common message change that's not metadata
do you see?

~Chad


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