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Hi,

I'd like to have ``The Insidious Big Brother Database'' installed, please.

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Package: bbdb
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Installed-Size: 1500
Maintainer: Joerg Jaspert <[email protected]>
Architecture: all
Version: 2.35.cvs20060204-1.1
Depends: make, emacs21 | emacsen
Suggests: vm, w3-el-e21, gnuserv, gnus | t-gnus, perl
Filename: pool/main/b/bbdb/bbdb_2.35.cvs20060204-1.1_all.deb
Size: 444052
MD5sum: 8afa459a0601f0a4591136bd638a659f
Description: The Insidious Big Brother Database (email rolodex) for Emacs
BBDB is a rolodex-like database program for GNU Emacs.  BBDB stands
for Insidious Big Brother Database, and is not, repeat, *not* an
obscure reference to the Buck Rogers TV series.
Tag: made-of::lang:lisp, role::sw:plugin, suite::emacs, use::editing, use::searching, use::storing, works-with::db, works-with::mail, works-with::pim

Thanks
Thomas

Anonymous wrote:Hi,
I'd like to have ``The Insidious Big Brother Database'' installed, please.

That wasn't guest, but me. I forgot to login, sorry.

Thomas

Erm, feel like giving me a bit more information about it....preferably in your own words so its easiest to understand

Tim wrote:Erm, feel like giving me a bit more information about it....preferably in your own words so its easiest to understand

BBDB is an address database to be accessed by the newsreader and e-mail client Gnus, which is part of Emacs (already available on infinity). BBDB stores the data as SEXPressions in ~/.bbdb . I have my personal contacts organized in BBDB format, on my own box at home. If BBDB was available on infinity, too, I could just copy that database and use that copy directly. Otherwise I had to grep out the addresses everytime I want to send an e-mail from the infinity shell account using Gnus. Of course, if I'm the only user of BBDB, just ignore my request and I try to install it locally (i.e.: in /home/hafner ). On the other side the package isn't that big, but simple and lean.

Regards
Thomas

It has been installed.

Tim wrote:It has been installed.

Thanks!
Regards
Thomas alias Guest (the originating one)