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bct on March 11, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: How I Explained REST to My Wife (2004)

"The web" isn't exactly a well-defined concept. There's a school of thought in which anything with a URI is part of the web.

sp332 on March 11, 2013 [–]

Emails don't have URIs. My email boxes don't have URIs. My main problem is that there's no way to link emails together, so they're not really part of any web.

glenjamin on March 11, 2013 | [–]

Does mailto:[email protected] not count as a URI to your mailbox?

sp332 on March 11, 2013 | | [–]

I meant /Inbox, /Trash, /Spam etc.

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