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+From: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>\r
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+On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:23:58 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre <racin@free.fr> wrote:\r
+> - Processing mails which do not have any automatically added tag is\r
+> boring, because I need to press several keys to archive them: "+" to\r
+> add a tag, and then "a". If I forget about +, then my mail is\r
+> impossible to find.\r
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+I don't understand this at all. You can find messages by searching for\r
+anything about them (sender, subject, body). In what way is it\r
+'impossible'?\r
+\r
+Using tags to group things is great, I agree, but coercing me into\r
+adding tags that I don't really need seems strange.\r
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+David Edmondson, http://dme.org\r