Arnt Gulbrandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>For a server emphasizing correctness and/or security, the simplicity of 
>the first approach may be tempting.

Protocols are not always designed so as to allow implementations to be
both correct and simple.


<tounge in cheek>

It's too bad Mark hadn't read Richard Gabriel's "Worse is Better" essay
before designing IMAP or he might not have included msgnos in the
protocol at all and we wouldn't be in this situation.

</tounge in cheek>


Philip Guenther
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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