# Email reading & more

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-reading-more/62661>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 7, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-reading-more/62661 "2006-06-07T03:07:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![pat\_eyler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/858c86/32.png) [@pat\_eyler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pat_eyler)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-reading-more/62661/1 "2006-06-07T03:07:47Z")

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On 6/6/06, Eric H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I’m writing tools to read my mailing list traffic for me and tell me  
> what’s interesting. I get between 500 and 1000 mailing list mails  
> per day.

There are two pieces of emacs (yes, they’re available elsewhere  
but emacs is where I discovered them) that I’d love to see made  
more available:

scoring mail/news readers (and blog crawling would be a  
nice addition)

the remembrance agent

I’ll assume that people understand the first. The second is a  
data indexer that runs in the background of an editing process  
and provides continous pointers to information that is  
contextually related to the text currently in the editor/reader.  
You can read much more (and better) information at:  
[http://www.remem.org/](http://www.remem.org/)

While a single user interface to the above would be nice, it  
would be incredibly cool to tie multiple people’s mail/news/blog  
scored indices together through some kind of  
reputation/relationship management system.

Just my random cool idea of the day.