[Design] Why *should* prior messages be "read only"? was: Re: Exposing Chandler Repository

[David Neeley]

And, presumably, the user could set a rule to make a particular folder read only? 
  
Personally, I think it is much more useful to be able to store email as text or some other available format. In fact, I think it'd be terrific if *all* the messages in a directory or in a thread could be moved into a single file with a standard format. To me, that would be a much better method of archiving messages than keeping them in some mail format forever, and requiring the user to go through them one by one and save them to text or .rtf or whatever. 
  
In fact, such a consolidation tool could be a very good answer to those who want an unaltered archive copy provided that it could be set for destructive or non-destructive archiving much as the compression archives allow with "add" or "move"--as well as choices for what level of headers to include or leave out. 
  
With this capability, your other applications could access messages all they wish, but you could have the originals still in all their pristine beauty! 
  
David 

-----Original Message----- 

At 5:48 PM -0800 12/1/02, David Neeley wrote: 
> For these reasons, I still maintain that the user should be able in 
> all cases to delete useless messages and to edit those which remain. 

David -- 

With Curt's idea, the user can still edit his/her {email, calendar, 
contacts} archive from inside Chandler, but it allows an *additional* 
way to access Chandler data. I am probably not alone in that I would 
feel more comfortable about running some other application on my 
{email, calendar, contacts} data if I knew that the new app couldn't 
corrupt it. 


> [Curt's] -----Original Message----- 
> It would be very useful to have a Chandler plugin that could expose the 
> Chandler repository as a mountable filesystem (probably read-only). This 
> would allow a many third-party applications and utilities to process 
> Chandler data without having to know anything about Chandler. 


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