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Jack Twilley <jmt+usenet@twilley.org> writes:

> 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 [..]
>
> 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.  

You might want to look at the iCalendar RFC's, RFC 2445-2447.  I think
MS Outlook groks that format.