John Welch wrote:
> On 11/28/00 10:53 AM, in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Ben
> Bucksch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Bullshit. I guess, you don't count me as valid user, then?
>
> You have a better way than LDAP to support 500000+ users? (take a look
> at the entry for Siemens in bug # 36557
All Ben is trying to say is that there are a lot of users who use IMAP but
not LDAP. You wrote "Supporting IMAP without LDAP is useless" and that is
false. A lot of people, like Ben, find it useful.
> Man, standards are not a substitution for functionality. They are a
> guide on the preffered way to get there. If the internet had kowtowed
> to standards they way Moz is, we would have not had packet swtiching or
> IP. It would have been Circuit Switching and SNA, (the *standards* of
> the day.).
You don't know what you're talking about. SNA was IBM's baby, not a
vendor-independent standard. IP, and the rest of the Internet
infrastructure, was built by proposing standards in RFCs and having people
independently implement those RFCs. If the Internet hadn't "kowtowed" to
standards then we'd all be using some hideous, overpriced equipment from
BBN ... if it worked at all.
I guess you think that the rule that says you have to drive on the right
side of the road is also just "the preferred way to get there" and you
drive on the left when you find that convenient.
> LOL...most of them wrote you off a year ago, got tired of waiting...the
> rest just don't care, there are other products that work *now*.
So what are you doing here then? Just getting in a bit of gloating? I
assure you that you're not achieving anything else.
Rob
--
[Robert O'Callahan http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~roc 7th year CMU CS PhD student
"Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in
front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and
asked, 'Are you for us or for our enemies?' 'Neither,' he replied, 'but
as commander of the army of the LORD I have now come.'" - Joshua 5:13-14]
