[Wolves] Planet Wolves - Add me - (Hula - why mail and calendar?)

Stuart Langridge sil at kryogenix.org
Fri Feb 18 08:30:34 GMT 2005


Andy Wootton wrote:
> I've had a bad day so I may just be venting steam but why are so many 
> packages integrating mail and calendar tools? I can just about accept 
> that mail & news & RSS are just different flavours of asynchronous 
> messaging but a calendar is about time allocation, more like project 
> management or scheduling tools. It may require a mail transport to 
> deliver an invitation but by that token it should include a Viagra 
> purchase agent too.

I think that it's because people have been conditioned to think of the 
two as going together by Outlook. Note that Mozilla have *not* done 
this, with Sunbird and Thunderbird separate...

Aq.



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