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From: Jens Lautenbacher <jens@lemming0.lem.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Date: 24 Mar 1997 12:27:06 +0100
In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of 24 Mar 1997 03:33:48 -0800
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Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

> That would be fine except bbdb doesn't appear to be maintained any
> more[1] and the information is available in the `In-Reply-To:' header,
> and people do move ...

But most of the time the email-address will change, too.
 
> This information can be quite relevant in a reply, it's only valid
> with respect to the email address you're replying to, and any decent
> mailer will present the correct timezone in the Date: header.

But is it irrelevant in a normal email (no reply)?

> [1]
> I've emailed Chuck and Jamie once already on this and got no response, 
> I'm cc'ing Jamie in a vain attempt to at least get a `hell no, go away'.
> Would it help if I threatened to put bbdb-1.51 in XEmacs 20.1 if I
> don't hear a response? :-)

I'd love to see it in the distrib. Even if it is no longer maintained,
then one could still hack it on it's own. I really think bbdb is the
/only/ usuable possibilty to work with email addresses. If only Lars
could be convinced to include x-message with gnus *now*

      JTL
 

