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On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:23:58 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre <racin@free.fr> wrote:
>  - Processing mails which do not have any automatically added tag is
>    boring, because I need to press several keys to archive them: "+" to
>    add a tag, and then "a". If I forget about +, then my mail is
>    impossible to find.

I don't understand this at all. You can find messages by searching for
anything about them (sender, subject, body). In what way is it
'impossible'?

Using tags to group things is great, I agree, but coercing me into
adding tags that I don't really need seems strange.

dme.
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David Edmondson, http://dme.org