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From: dvd@dav...
Subject: acme: some thoughts about design
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 22:34:39 +0500

> A 2-dimensional hierarchy is hopelessly inadequate for storing
> information in a "natural" way. People retrieve information along many
> different "vectors" all the time, and a hierachical filesystem only
> really has 1 or 2. It may be a great low-level implementation, but being
> able to say "find the e-mail I wrote to Timothy last week" is a lot more
> useful to the user.

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