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July 23, 2006

huh

Perhaps they should rename it Epistle.app

Posted Jul. 23, ’06, 9:16 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Apple » Huh?

Alexander PushkinIf Russian author Alexander Pushkin were around today, you think he’d be writing longhand? No way. Pushkin would be a Mac man, all the way. Besides his published works, Pushkin was quite the letter writer; I’m sure Mail.app would have been right up his alley.

But as Alexander is no longer with us, we’ll have to make do with the next best thing. User Maciej Ceglowski has imported a bunch of Pushkin’s early letters into a Mail.app mbox file, available for download at his site. Ceglowski was inspired by the Samuel Pepys Blog, a website that reposts entries from Pepys’s diaries (only 403 years off).

I like the idea of archiving letters in Mail.app; that is, after all, what it’s more or less intended for, even if preserves only the content. Unfortunately, it’s not a flawless solution.

I had to bump the date up by 200 years because Mail.app refuses to properly sort nineteenth century email. I consider this a bug.
Yeah Apple, get on that.

[via Hawk Wings]


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