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From: "Lone Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I'm dreaming about a "there should be only one" addressbook,
>
> No offense, but it seems more like "one size fits all" and that rarely
> ever works right.
seems the html format is good enough for the web
seems the vcard format is good enough for personal info...
and this is why I said "dreaming", I would be happy to go from the current
situation every-MUA-implement-their-own-addressbook to
most-MUAs-use-this-format
> > and I repeat, evolution is in a strong position to define a de facto
> > standard for addressbook format, but that format can't be a binary
> > format because it broke interoperability and accesibility for
> > others emails programs...
>
> Setting "de facto" standards isn't good enough either. If there's no
> RFC (or no IEEE spec) then there's no standard and any way of doing
> things is equally valid. If a tool that can easily extract the data and
> parse it into whatever format I like is easily created, then why should
> the evolution folks be expected to write the addressbook another way?
there is a standard called vcard, but not a defined storage, maybe the
principals hackers from mutt, pine, balsa, gnus, evolution can design a
format based on vcard, it's a win-win situation IMO...
/sergio
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