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From: pays@mars.emse.fr (Paul-Andre Pays)
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Subject: Re: P7 question
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Date: 8 Aug 90 13:58:53 GMT
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I regret (for Sandy SHAW) to state that I support the US and german position...
    ie. to limit the MS to its present scope

The MS is not meant to be the storage for an advanced user mailbox, but just to
serve as you mentionned it as an "in-tray".
There is no reason to define and limit all the facilities that a specific
user mailbox will offer; it depends greatly on the context eg. office automation
research environment, more formal commercial environment...

Thus le P7 MS is NOT the mailbox, just a temporary storage
for messages to be delivered to a user.
We must stop consider it for what it was not meant to be
and concentrate at defining the features of a nice mailbox... for which
it could be wise to use a commonly accepted FR protocol, such as DFR
if (and only if) suitable and appropriate...



- pap