RSD is a very simple tool that allow us to sort out discussions and out many discussion threads a given email thread (this subthread called a Point). Any person can respond to an RSD email by adding his or her initials.Anybody can also add any number of points and topics to the current RSD also allows for recording Issues and Action items. Actually, it can look at any number of tags other than point, topic and discussion. All discussions, issue list and action items are available from a single page. See for instance at http//jeanjadu018075/rsd/rsd.htm (I am still having a couple snags on LF and ' (use ^' for apostrophe)) The syntax is easy and tolerant like HTML not all tags need to be closed don't forget the at the end of attributes). In the near future, it will be possible to embed HTML and XML tags as well. I am not to happy yet with what I came up with, but it is better than XML ! If you have a better syntax please let me know./ The architecture is pretty simple, an rsdAgent watches the mailing list, instance, a given rsd email address can be used for all discussions need to be monitored. Once an email arrives, it reads it and transforms it into a canonical format. Then, this XML document is parsed, the discussion title is. At this point, it can be the start of a new discussion (this done automatically) or a response to an existing discussion. In that it merges the content of the mail with the of file on record for discussion. The beauty of this mechanism is that any number of may come back from the initial email, all the topics, points, issues, will be merged (and not duplicated). This is matching multiparty collaboration pattern, not just binary collaboration, as was kind of designed for. Please try it for yourself ! Send a response to this document at the CC/ above, or start a new discussion !