2014 is on the left, 2015 on the right:

At first, I thought I’d organize everything in the space, but I didn’t get very far. Your efforts are welcome. Warning: there’s a lot of mail!

The printer in the corner of the photograph above should print messages as they come in.

Along the way, I (accidentally) implemented a skeletal e-mail client:

It’s about 50 lines of code, most of which is (poorly) dealing with quoted regions. When you’re in lab, you can access at http://gallery.att.net:4444/email/, though I wouldn’t (yet!) recommend it for … anything.

When I was printing the receipts I got fed up with trying to make the perfect rules for when to display quoted regions, and when to skip them. This is mostly a note to myself, because in this group I’m the one most likely to bring in the carrots (“>”), but I would kindly request that, when all else is equal, we adapt the “gmail-style” of e-mail threads, and simply top-post instead of trying to elaborately weave replies within messages. I think it will make the “unit” of a message easier to work with in prototypes, &c.

Under the hood, this is supported by a “bridge” between inboxapp’s long polling API and my “seatbelt” database, which is running locally on the Research Gallery computer; I hope it will make in-lab prototyping faster & easier.

Now, to see if this thing prints out… 

R.M.O.