One important element of what we seem to need is a reliable, functional, EMail Store that could store the body of EMail documents in a way that would allow them to be cross-indexed and managed in convenient ways.

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Categorization problem. Example: which one folder do you put an email in? Answer: Why not many, but why not be able to do this without actual duplication and with some automated support?

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Blog histories. Same thing, really: record info, version it, be able to recover and retrieve it intelligently.

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Logging and retrieving records--memos, minutes, emails, reports, calendar entries, etc.--created by office-based organizations, people working together. (Note versioning and temporal management important.)

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An earlier version was lost.... I recall that Berkeley wrote a treatise on ethics, but left the one copy of the manuscript in a coach in Italty and never recovered it. He "didn't have the heart" to start over again. Perhaps we're all better off anyway.

[The individual points have been moved to Topics' under Paradigm Problems']

Suggestion: These three problems have a common solution. (Nothing is ever a total solution, just a significant partial solution is all I'm after.)

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