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AFAIK it was intended to support the use case of being occasionally connected to the internet (one author spent a lot of time on a small sailboat in the south Pacific), while maintaining an order of messages.


Lotus Notes solved that problem over 30 years ago.


And newsgroups, email, uucp etc.




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