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Subject: Re: Email mediums
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I would like to put a plug in for an integrated mail system.  Something
like the MIT Media Lab video disk I recently saw.  I think a lot of
David's objections comes from existing implementations of voice mail and
other mail systems.

I know I would like to attach more than simple text to many mail message
(in fact I have an elegant little proof, which would take a little too
long to type in ;-), and it has figures....).  I would like a mail
system which could integrate sound, images and text.  I don't think it's
a matter of interference or interruption.  It's not clear to me that
most of us polish our words when we use Email.  On the other hand it
would be nice to send animation rather than static figures in documents.

--eugene miya 			NASA Ames Research Center