> Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 19:59:04 -0700 (PDT) > From: Mark Crispin <[email protected]> > ... > I go to the trouble to teach you how things actually work, and you respond > with a typical nihilistic Gen-X retort. > > The righteous thing is to follow the specifications; and if you think that > the specifications are incorrect then work to get them changed. You're > the one who seems to be angrily insisting that the specifications > shouldn't be followed. > > And then to make stupid statements such as "TCP is not reliable". > ...
i am a boomer not a genx'er, but i believe that i have earned the respect of many genx'ers. let me speak intergeneratioanlly when i say that tcp as i experience it in the field is unreliable. tcp in my house and isc's office works fine. and i regularly sleep my laptop for several days and then wake it up with no loss of tcp state (that is, i don't even need "screen" at home unless i'm switching from laptop to desktop or similar.) to reiterate, tcp as i experience it in the field is unreliable. in the field i am using other peoples' networks. i cope with this unreliability in the usual way, i restart my clients (including KDE Kontact/KMail) quite often. _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
