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Topic: mail databases
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computer science >
database
Group:
information retrieval
Topic:
personal information
Summary
Users may retain email indefinetely for contacts and an historical record.Email may be distributed and archived via a corporate database. (cbb 3/07)
Subtopic: message folders not needed
Quote: Walnut uses messages and message-sets; new mail goes to 'active' while deleted mail goes to 'deleted' [»kentJ8_1988] Quote: a message file is a group of messages with similar meaning; e.g., from x about project y [»tsicD1_1983] Quote: message files will tend to be large and require a sequential scan [»tsicD1_1983]
Subtopic: recency queries
Quote: with mail browsing, folders are less necessary; some users just had 'active', 'deleted' and 'archived' folders [»kentJ8_1988] Quote: few Cedar users switched to Walnut's mail database due to low performance, no queries, no need for transactions [»kentJ8_1988] Quote: second release of Walnut was better received [»kentJ8_1988]
Subtopic: mail as database
Quote: almost half of mail queries with a date restriction were less than a week ago [»kentJ8_1988]
Quote: Star's file drawers and mail in-baskets are also databases; can be queried
[»smitDC4_1982]
Group: database (27 topics, 665 quotes)
Group: information retrieval (25 topics, 674 quotes)
Topic: personal information
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