calendaring

[Tom Metro]

Daniel Feenberg wrote:
> ...can anyone point me to some instructions for 
> creating calendar events that can be attached to email messages?

You mean vCal/iCal?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar
http://www.imc.org/pdi/
http://www.imc.org/pdi/vcal-10.txt
http://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/


> As I understand it, the email client typically contains 
> the ability to update ones personal google calendar based on the contents 
> of such an attachment.

Sure, though the attachments seem to be a rarity outside the corporate 
world. For example, none of the Boston-area user groups that I've seen 
meeting notice emails from use iCalendar attachments.

  -Tom

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