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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:

> For example, I would like to use a "todo" keyword, and attach that to
> articles that I need to do something about.  Then I could enter a
> group and do a "/ k todo" or whatever, and see all those articles.

This is possible now with the Keywords header, extra headers and `/ x'.
It's a bit of cumbersome to set up, though.

> I've also been toying with a the idea of a much more radical variation
> on the same theme.  What if the mailer stored every message *only
> once* in a guaranteed uniquely named file (across the entire backend),
> and then used keywords (instead of physical placement in the
> filesystem) to indicate groups?

This sounds like a job for nnsql.  :-)

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