Re: mew + gnus + namazu

["A. L. Meyers" <nospam.look@replyto.because.this.is.invalid>]

Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:

> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
>
>> Chris Beggy <chrisb@kippona.com> writes:
>>
>>> The feature of mew which makes my mail handling easier is the ability
>>> to auto-suggest folders based on my past mail handling habits, which
>>> mew is recording.  It is possible, but there is no need to edit a
>>> list of rules for folder suggestion.  This behavior is called refile
>>> guessing, and is created by mew-refile-guess-* functions and
>>> variables.
>>
>> Gnus really ought to get something similar.
>>
>> Unfortunately, we can't just steal the code, as it isn't assigned to
>> the FSF.
>
> It's even more unfornate that IBM is applying for a patent, which might
> cover this feature (IANAL):
>
> ,----
> | SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
> | 
> | [0020] The present invention is a method for assisting a user with the
> | task of identifying and carrying out an appropriate labeling of an
> | electronic document such as electronic mail, a news group article, web
> | pages or non-textual electronic documents such as images, video clips
> | and audio clips.
> | 
> | [0021] The method of the present invention includes the steps of
> | training a text classifier on the user's existing labeled collection of
> | documents, running the classifier on newly received documents, using the
> | classification results to identify the most likely labels and presenting
> | the set of possible labels to the user in a way that accentuates the
> | most likely labels. The method further includes the step of updating the
> | classifier as documents continue to be stored and labeled.
> | 
> | [0022] In one embodiment of the invention, the method is imbedded in an
> | electronic mail application and assists users in organizing their mail
> | in separate folders. In a second embodiment, the method is imbedded in a
> | Web browser for the purpose of assisting users in organizing their
> | bookmarks (pointers to web pages).
> `----
>
> <http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.html&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=061706.APN.&OS=apn/061706&RS=APN/061706>
>
> Does anybody know how long Mew has had this feature?  Maybe it's prior
> art.

Jesper, hope some of the mew people have read this and will see if they
have already GPL'ed the code for this feature. Maybe then they could
get IBM to desist or stop IBM's patent effort.

If you are familiar with mew's communication channels, you might want
to send them a wake-up message. ;-)

BTW do you use mew instead of gnus or in some combination or separately?

Lucien
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