Graphical knowledge based electronic mail system (GKBEMS)

An electronic mail system, built on a distributed knowledge base and providing a set of useful operations in the very comfortable way, is described. In fact, all of the advanced mail operations provided by the system are based on a good and precise description of documents and users. Such operations simplify finding useful information about existing documents, sending the documents without specifying the user's address, and prioritizing, sorting, selecting, discharging, and forwarding mail. Electronic mail operations are also improved with the possibility of easier processing of the external documents and exploiting the capabilities of a modern workstation equipped with image input-output devices.<
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