From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1245 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jarl Friis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Is BBDB really that bad? Date: 30 Sep 2002 20:57:41 +0200 Organization: Research Assistant Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668015 10371 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:40:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:40:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:51 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!212.54.64.131!news100.image.dk!news010.worldonline.dk.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Sender: jarl@zeus.intra.softace.dk Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.237.48.227 Original-X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@wol.dk Original-X-Trace: news010.worldonline.dk 1033412186 213.237.48.227 (Mon, 30 Sep 2002 20:56:26 MET DST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 20:56:26 MET DST Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1385 Original-Lines: 17 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1385 Tue Jan 17 17:28:51 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1245 Archived-At: Hi I just tried out BBDB as an addressbook. I tried 2.32 as that was installed on my system. By entering my own addres I figured out that many design-decisions was made under the assumption that we all live in USA. It makes it more or less useless to me, is that really so? It stores entries in a lisp-like file ~/.bbdb, has anybody considered to make an interface to a Relational Databse Management System before? Can someone say if some of these issues have been resolved in earlier versions of BBDB? Jarl