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by mattwad 745 days ago
email is such an annoying standard for storage. i think i'd prefer a simple local SQLLite db with flat HTML files. You could use Next.js and output as 'standalone' if you wanna use React to generate the HTML
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Any sufficiently complicated network program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of email or Usenet.
If you sync with Thunderbird, it puts all your emails into SQLite dbs that you can peruse.
is this satire.