Re: Attaching notes to messages

[Eric Marsden <emarsden@mail.dotcom.fr>]

>>>>> "fp" == François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

  fp> Annotations should be individual, maybe more related to
  fp> `.newsrc' (or `.newsrc.eld') than articles themselves. The main
  fp> idea is to leave original articles alone, so I do not impose my
  fp> own annotations to other people reading the same spool. This is
  fp> less necessary for `nnml', which is often personal by nature,
  fp> but yet, the same principles could be used there.

yes, using an nnpg backend which stores annotations and other metadata
in a PostgreSQL database. Sure, Postgres is not as nice as PLOB! but
it does have some OO features, it's free software, widely used,
there's even a (&/%¤#) elisp interface to it :-)

   <URL:http://www.chez.com/emarsden/downloads/pg.el>
  
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