Comments on: The problem with mail is that messages aren’t intrinsically addressable http://blog.jonmountjoy.com/the-problem-with-mail-is-that-we-have-no-permalinks/ Memes and Schemes from a Community Manager Consultant Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:34:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jon http://blog.jonmountjoy.com/the-problem-with-mail-is-that-we-have-no-permalinks/#comment-6 Jon Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:29:50 +0000 http://www.jonmountjoy.com/meme/the-problem-with-mail-is-that-we-have-no-permalinks/#comment-6 Good one Coté. I just fired up GMail in the hope...I sort of drafted a URI schema document in my head, and one of the aspects was that mail messages should be addressable on the web too. I guess it would be something like: mail:messageID[:xxmountjoy@gmail.com] But you'd need a different way of processing these for every web mail implementation, unless they all provided a standard RESTian service say for calling up the desired mail message. <br />I think Leopard, the new OS X release, fixes my problem at least. It looks like their todos allows you to embed pointers to mail messages. I hope that they've done this "right" and that these pointers can be embedded (and recognized) in all sorts of documents. (ie. a URI scheme of some sort) Good one Coté. I just fired up GMail in the hope…I sort of drafted a URI schema document in my head, and one of the aspects was that mail messages should be addressable on the web too. I guess it would be something like:
mail:messageID[:xxmountjoy@gmail.com]
But you’d need a different way of processing these for every web mail implementation, unless they all provided a standard RESTian service say for calling up the desired mail message.
I think Leopard, the new OS X release, fixes my problem at least. It looks like their todos allows you to embed pointers to mail messages. I hope that they’ve done this “right” and that these pointers can be embedded (and recognized) in all sorts of documents. (ie. a URI scheme of some sort)

]]> By: Cote' http://blog.jonmountjoy.com/the-problem-with-mail-is-that-we-have-no-permalinks/#comment-5 Cote' Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:43:44 +0000 http://www.jonmountjoy.com/meme/the-problem-with-mail-is-that-we-have-no-permalinks/#comment-5 While this train of thought doesn't exactly address the above: I've been wishing that emails from lists that have web based archives would put the URL for the email at the bottom of the email. That sounds confusing. The use-case is this: I read a message I like in ScrumDevelopment (or whatever list) and want to bookmark/link to it. I have to go login to the Yahoo! Groups web archive UI, find the message, and then I have the link. I'd much rather have just had the link in the email to click on. While this train of thought doesn’t exactly address the above: I’ve been wishing that emails from lists that have web based archives would put the URL for the email at the bottom of the email.

That sounds confusing.

The use-case is this: I read a message I like in ScrumDevelopment (or whatever list) and want to bookmark/link to it. I have to go login to the Yahoo! Groups web archive UI, find the message, and then I have the link.

I’d much rather have just had the link in the email to click on.

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