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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/02/2021 9:25 am, MJWestkamper
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cite="mid:4ccdaa85-3d54-515a-394a-797516c98c71@weiinc.com">A
thought....
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That's a very good thought. <br>
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cite="mid:4ccdaa85-3d54-515a-394a-797516c98c71@weiinc.com">Today
digital correspondence has become not only a means to exchange
ideas, build on topics of discussion and document issues, it has
become an archive of our lives, both personal and business. We
evolved from charcoal on limestone to pencil and paper to movable
type and on to typewriters and carbon paper. In those forms there
was a permanence to our thoughts. Eons later I can still
understand what a person was saying when there I see an auroch
with an arrow headed for it or a Shakespeare sonnet in Olde
English (with some help) or a carbon copy of my enlistment
papers. Today our musings are but a wisp of a magnetic spin that
can be lost forever in a nanosecond.
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Thunderbird is a state-of-the-art means to collect, collate and
disseminate the writing of a billion souls. But it is impermanent
and poorly curated.
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I think TB is the conduit. The DBMS is the store. Each one of those
billion is responsible for curating.<br>
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Not all of the stuff we pen is worthy of saving. Maybe most is
not, but some is and will be lost by some errant code in the next
Windows update.
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I suggest Thunderbird is a place to build the means to add
permanence to the written record, curate the stuff that is worthy
and make it available for posterity. That will be no mean feat,
but I suggest it is a worthy one.
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I agree. Very worthy. <br>
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Maybe the API can play a part and someone capable of building a
curating/archiving device will be the next TB hero?<br>
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Until then, long live POP and personal management of archives!<br>
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YMMV<br>
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M :-)<br>
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Mike
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