On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Christof Drescher wrote: > One addition would then be the part of an "extension": A command to supply a > list of folders which it wants to receive untagged STATUS updates about. > > Wouldn't that be a really simple solution? Conforming? Rather easy to > implement on both client and server?
STATUS is not necessarily an inexpensive operation. If you want a widely deployed new-mail notification system, you need to reduce it to what is really needed and can be globally implemented at low cost, as opposed to what you may be able to do on some implementation. If you have the attitude that it must be the big thing or nothing at all, then what you will get is nothing at all. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
