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SIGMOD '84: Proceedings of the 1984 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data

Pages 215 - 222

https://doi.org/10.1145/602259.602289

Published: 01 June 1984 Publication History

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Conventional electronic mail is passive text that is created, sent and read. Any further actions must be initiated by the recipient. By contrast, an "intelligent message" (imessage) is an active program that carries on a dialogue with the recipient. The imessage may subsequently route itself to other users as a result of the responses it receives, and it eventually returns these responses to the original sender.This paper describes a prototype intelligent mail system and discusses some of the problems involved in implementing such a system in a distributed environment.

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SIGMOD '84: Proceedings of the 1984 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data

June 1984

339 pages

ISBN:0897911288

DOI:10.1145/602259

Conference Chair:
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Computer Corporation of America
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ACM SIGMOD Record Volume 14, Issue 2
June 1984
333 pages
ISSN:0163-5808
DOI:10.1145/971697
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Ueda HTsukamoto MNishio SPickholtz RDas SCaceres RGarcia-Luna-Aceves J(2000)W-mailProceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking10.1145/345910.345960(284-291)Online publication date: 1-Aug-2000
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/345910.345960
Mazer MLochovsky F(1984)Logical routing specification in office information systemsACM Transactions on Information Systems10.1145/2275.22782:4(303-330)Online publication date: 1-Oct-1984
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2275.2278

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