How to steal the single useful idea in Outlook

[Jack Twilley <jmt+usenet@twilley.org>]

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One of the few features of Microsoft Outlook that make it worth using
in a corporate environment is the ability to receive meeting
announcements and automatically update calendars.  Unix has had this
capability for years in some mail clients (elm comes to mind) but it's
noticeably absent in Gnus.

What I'd like to do, then, is figure out the best way to implement
this in Gnus.  Here's what I see:

 * a washing function to snarf meeting announcements 
   The meeting announcements follow a specific pattern.  It should be
   pretty easy to write some elisp to extract the useful information
   and ask relevant questions about accepting or declining and about
   responses.  The responses are also in a specific format.
 * functions to update the calendars
   Multiple calendaring systems should be supported -- M-x diary,
   calendar, and plan at the least -- so a simple API needs to be
   written and some example functions to implement the obvious ones.

What am I missing?  It can't be this easy or else it would have
already been done.

Jack.
(excited about Gnus again, a nice feeling)
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Jack Twilley
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