Conversation-based mail
- 1 September 1986
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
- Vol. 4 (4) , 299-319
- https://doi.org/10.1145/6513.6515
Abstract
A new message communication paradigm based on conversations that provides an alternative to memo - and conference -based mail is described. A conversation-based message system groups messages into conversations, and orders messages within a conversation according to the context in which they were written. The message context relation leads to an efficient implementation of conversations in a distributed environment and supports a natural ordering of messages when viewed by the user. Experience with a prototype demonstrates the workability of conversation-based mail and suggests that conversations provide a powerful tool for message communication.Keywords
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