[Dev] Existing p2p systems for getting offline node back up to date?

[Tim Randolph]

On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 03:07 PM, Andy Hertzfeld wrote:

>
>       One simple answer is email.  I think we can use email for lots 
> of store-and-forward sharing purposes.  Emails with special headers 
> sent to other instances of Chandler wouldn't be presented as normal 
> email but instead be used as the store-and-forward part of the sharing 
> framework. You could even build a Groove-like, transaction-based relay 
> server out of simple email, so no special purpose servers are required 
> to be deployed.
>
> -- Andy
>
If Chandler goes this way, I think some weight should be given to 
making these messages human readable and even writable.  I would love 
to be able to send myself a Task from my Yahoo mail account.

YAML (yaml.org) seems to have incorporated true human readability as a 
design goal (along with being highly compatible with scripting 
languages and a few others).

--Tim