Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!swb From: swb@chumley.tn.cornell.edu (Scott Brim) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: Can you associate user-defined status bits with each message? Message-ID: Date: 7 Feb 91 20:32:57 GMT References: <15482:Feb702:26:1891@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Sender: news@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu Organization: Cornell Theory Center Lines: 9 In-Reply-To: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu's message of 7 Feb 91 02:26:18 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: chumley.tn.cornell.edu Dan, in addition to what John Romine sent about annotations, consider the simple power of "sequences". For example, if you want to flag a message foo as having attribute bar, you say "mark foo -add -sequence bar" (actually you do this in aliases for common attributes). A message can be in as many sequences as you like, and you can manipulate whole batches of messages in sequences, e.g. "rmm bar". Also, with a decent interface (I use GNUemacs) you can temporarily narrow your view of a folder to just a sequence or set of sequences, and so forth. Scott