On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Sam Varshavchik <mr...@courier-mta.com>wrote:
>
> I don't have any figures or stats. But everywhere I look, I see no signs
> of life. On Usenet, comp.mail.imap used to carry respectable daily traffic
> a while ago. It's a ghost town now, maybe a dozen posts a year, for the
> last 4-5 years, if not longer.
>
> I looked up a few other IMAP-related mailing lists that I know of, earlier
> this year. Also a pale shadow of their former selves.
>
> I wish I could say otherwise, but that's what it is. The flip side of the
> coin is that IMAP is a mature protocol. It does its job, and there is no
> viable replacement for it. As long as there's still a need for a
> standardized client/server mail system, where either the client or the
> server component is interchangable, IMAP will still be there. I just don't
> think there's any opportunity to grow mindshare.
This is a trend that I notice with a lot of technologies and projects. At
their development and infancy stage there is a lot of list traffic but once
a project, development methodology, protocol matures, the discussion
interest fizzles out to virtually nothing. I put it down to a combination
of a shift to web based boards for users, sufficient web based "follow this
like a sheep" recipies available via google for those dabbling in the
technologies, and the project maturing to a stage where the development
input is invalid and where the projects just need to chase the competition
feature by feature to stay in the game.
The adoption of IMAP as a protocol has never been higher in my opinion. Its
does what it is supposed to do with known shortcomings, and most are happy
with the results. Its the evolution of protocols such as SMAP is where the
mindshare needs to be, where the shortcomings of IMAP can be discussed in a
way that is going to deliver results instead of discussing that certain
features are outside the scope of IMAP. Is there a SMAP discussion forum?
Harry.
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