Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
You can implement that as a library. In fact I wanted to do it for Phobos for a long time. I've discussed it in this group too (to an unusual consensus), but I forgot the thread's title and stupid Thunderbird "download 500 headers at a time forever even long after have changed that idiotic default option" won't let me find it.
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