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On 03 Jan 2001 17:01:27 +0200, Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi> said:

Hannu> for my purpose the Exchange server needs not be involved at
Hannu> all.  That is, a system that lets me to keep the calendar data
Hannu> on Emacs-based software is enough --- I don't need to (or
Hannu> rather: I don't want to) access it from Exchange too.  Of
Hannu> course, sharing calendar stuff with Exchange might be a cool
Hannu> addition for some users, but it's something that probably
Hannu> someone else needs to take a look at, though I don't think
Hannu> there's much to look at --- at least...

Ditto for me, but I think the architecture should support a variety of
calendar backends. Perhaps some native UNIX one, Palm, Hexchange, ...
Synchronization is important with any of these backends.