From randy{at}zws.com Sat Dec 27 08:09:11 1997
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 08:06:36 +1100 (EST)
From: andrew clarke 
To: Kim Lykkegaard 
Subject: Re: Nodelist LookUp - well sort of .-)

On Wed, 24 Dec 1997, Kim Lykkegaard wrote:

> I'm still look to do the same kind of lookup in the Version7 nodelist, but
> it take some time to get the hang of that the code do and why :-)

Yes.  I haven't had any experience with the existing V7 code, but from
memory it looked fairly complex.  It may be easier to rewrite the code, I'm
not sure.

> BTW: Maybe we sould talk about an feauter I have been thinken about. One
> thing I miss is a kind off internal database. Some place where you can mage
> a small note about a person, soo you can remember him.

That sounds a lot like an "addressbook" database, only heaps
better.  I can imagine writing to somebody, and wanting to remember a
detail about them, such as their birthday, or their Internet web page
address, or something else, and I could call up the Msged address book and
find out. Excellent!  I don't think it should be necessarily be limited to
individual people though.  You could have multiple people listed in one
group.  Part of the addressbook could have a section to allow the Msged
user to write reminder notices to themselves, like a memo pad.

I'm not sure how you'd implement any of that, but I think the most
important is that the actual addressbook database is portable among
different operating systems (versions of Msged).  That probably means using
a text storage format.  I see no real reason why it should be limited to
Msged itself, either, but it should be called the "Msged addressbook
database format" (or something like that) for compatibility.

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