- From: Jim Hendler <jhendler@darpa.mil>
- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:05:50 -0500
- To: gf@medianet.org, phayes@ai.uwf.edu
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
> > >With respect, I don't see the point in your proposal. Mail (not just >email, but mail more generally) is inherently a push rather than pull >phenomenon. That is why we send things to addresses. If email were a >pull technology it just wouldn't work. Have you ever tried to >schedule a meeting using email? In answer to your query: no, I would >certainly not put such tags into (most of) my email. > Guess I disagree - if more people tagged their mail, more filtering could occur (i.e. assume you tag to make it EASIER for me to find your mail) -- in particular, think how much easier to search mail archives and etc. if mail was marked up with some metadata. I would not do much to metadata tag my mail (or much else), but as those of you who know the DAML program I'm running know - I think we can make tagging very easy in many cases. Example - a little menu in my mailer that let me choose an ontology and some properties -- put it on my mail (and gaurantee those would propagate unless someone explicitely removed) woudl be great -- then this "semantic mail" thread, for example, could be something I could track and trace (see Pat, it's not all push) or filter when I get bored. I think easy to use taggers, tied to machine readable technologies, will be a really important technology -- DAML folks out there, that's one for someone looking for what to do... -Jim H Prof. James Hendler Program Manager DARPA/ISO 703-696-2238 (phone) 3701 N. Fairfax Dr. 703-696-2201 (Fax) Arlington, VA 22203 jhendler@darpa.mil
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