Yahoo opens up its e-mail code

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The initiative could mean new ways to deal with mail messages
Yahoo is letting web programmers get their hands on the core code for its e-mail program.
By opening up the code Yahoo hopes to help create a series of innovative ways to deal with e-mail messages.

Eventually it said there could be "tens of thousands" of add-ons and extras for the e-mail reader.

Yahoo is only the latest of the big web companies to open up their main services to the wider code developing community.

full story: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5398310.stm

[PrivateInvestigator]

good for them. there's bound to be a very strict editing process or a hacker could end up making a very annoying glitch appear!

[Duke]

This is fantastic news and we all end up winning in the process. I think they may be taking lead from the few games such as Operation Flashpoint, rFactor, etc., that are community driven, extremely vibrant and offer endless amounts of mods.

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