E-Mail Data Stores

For many people, e-mail has become a running record of their business and personal lives. Somewhere in that big clot of e-mail messages that have accumulated over the years is a wealth of information about people they’ve met, work they’ve done, meetings they’ve held. There are tough calls and tender moments, great debates and funny episodes. When did you first meet a certain person? Just what was the initial offer in a business deal? What was that joke somebody sent you in 1998? The answers lie in your old e-mail. Unfortunately, it’s often easier to search the vast reaches of the World Wide Web than to quickly and accurately search your own stored e-mail. (Mossberg, 2004)