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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> "Jody M. Klymak" <jklymak@apl.washington.edu> writes:
> 
> > There is also an accepted Vcalendar standard (again at
> > http://www.imc.org/pdi/) that allows people to
> > send meeting information in a standard form.  It might be very nice
> > to do this - not only would a lot of gnus-users stuck in corporate
> > environments be able to ditch Outlook, but it may also help propogate
> > these useful ways of marking up our emails.  
> 
> So people send these Vcalendar attachments to each other, and Gnus could
> have a command for sucking the attachments into the user's personal
> calendar?  That kinda sounds actually useful.

Well, does anyone actually USE this standard?  I'm pretty sure outlook does
_not_.  The only thing I've seen that uses it is the gnome calendar app.

-bp