[[!template id=project

title="Normalize and Summarize Email Threads"

contact="""
[tech-userlevel](mailto:tech-userlevel@NetBSD.org)
"""

mentors="""
[David Young](mailto:dyoung@NetBSD.org)
"""

category="userland"
difficulty="hard"
duration="3 months"

description="""
Write a program that can read an email, infer quoting conventions,
discern bottom-posted emails from top-posted emails, and rewrite
the email using the conventions that the reader prefers.  Then,
take it a step further: write a program that can distill an entire
email discussion thread into one document where every writer's
contribution is properly attributed and appears in its proper place
with respect to interleaved quotations.
"""
]]