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by contingencies 513 days ago
... but can it read emails?

Jamie Zawinski's Law: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

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They’re working on a scheme-based plugin system, so… almost!
And a corollary to this law:

Except for programs embedded in applications that can already read mail (notably web apps)