[Alpine-info] Rapportive??

[Leif Walsh]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2010, Beartooth wrote:


> 	http://rapportive.com/ is getting praise on Novalug*. I looked, 

> and at present it's an add-on for Gmail in Firefox and others. 


Reminds me of the BBDB, but Web 2.0-style.


> 	Would it be possible to make such a thing work with Alpine (and 

> without Gmail, much less a browser? 


Seems like not quite the thing command-line mail client users would be in
to, but I expect if you wanted something like that, it might start with
something like surfraw[1].


> 	My guess is that several here share my detestation of webmail, 

> html in mail, etc. ad nauseam. 

> 

> 	The info could be useful, especially to those of us who post to 

> groups like this (at Gmane or elsewhere) with real addresses, or who use 

> the likes of LinkedIn. We do get legitimate email from strangers.


Dunno, but it would be interesting to see built nonetheless.

[1]: http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/

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Cheers,
Leif