Funny thing, last week two of us were discussing what a terrible job our company's spam/virus filter was doing, and concluded it's exactly the kind of thing MV does best, if only there was a true email interface. On top of that, many of us have had to make hacks to execute blat/elm/sendmail (we just redid ours to add support for priority, Cc:, return request, etc.) Native U2 email support (POP and SMTP) would certainly make this a possibility, and (re: the originial issue) the data could also be served up forum-style through UniObjects/UoJ (unless, as you and others suggest, someone went further and made web interfaces as well).
Anyway, sounds like adding this would introduce a viable business opportunity - lots of places want small-footprint, low-maintenance email filters. AFAICS each site wouldn't take more than a couple of user licenses as well.
Happy musing, David Beahm
Tony Gravagno wrote:
Two ideas, not entirely original: 1) The techie in me says It would be an interesting project to create the e-mail and web interfaces described in an MV system. (What a concept, a database for massive amounts of structured data...) It wouldn't have the bells and whistles of established e-mail listservers (for a while anyway), nor of established web forums, but it would be possible to store the data in an MV environment which then populates one of the standard web forum software packages through an API, or a web interface can be written.
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