On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 01:24:00PM -0700, Mark Crispin wrote: > Crapware assumes that it is a network issue that somehow is utterly > irrecoverable in TCP, yet magically goes away if you tear down the TCP > connection and establish a new one. > hmmm ... why might they do such an obviously nonsensical thing ... wait, maybe because it's how reality actually works? ever heard about connection-tracking packet filters and routers? ill-tempered transparent proxies? dial-up disconnects?
> Guess what happens when thousands of pieces of crapware are all doing > the same thing at the same time. > funny, how establishing some reasonable common guidelines for handling loss of state in the standard could alleviate these problems to a significant degree. unfortunately, the creator doesn't even acknowledge the problem. oh, well. tough luck, i guess. _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
