Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!MIX!Blackbird From: billy@MIX.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: POP3 vs. IMAP Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 16:45:54 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <1lkuvlk.we7paplh2d4N%befr@eaglesoft.de> <5362d122$0$44783$862e30e2@ngroups.net> <1lkzc6u.1e2vwwswehd0N%nmassello@yahoo.com> <5363472a$0$50666$c3e8da3$92d0a893@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1399135554 24829 166.84.1.5 (3 May 2014 16:45:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 16:45:54 +0000 (UTC) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:59125 Doc O'Leary writes: > > http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/notes/read_this > > I read and re-read it all before, including the various RFCs and their > updates. There is plenty I don't like, and much that is completely > outdated. Right now, I don't care if I'm swimming upstream to complete > a fool's errand. Right now, the echos of what people thought Usenet > should be in 1995 ring hollow when I couldn't even find a damn libnntp > to base my reader on; neither one that gets used by all the existing > newsreaders, nor one that got made by any of their efforts. Well, yea, things have changed somewhat over the last 20 years. But... > That all sounds more hostile than it should. My underlying point > remains that, despite there being a lot of "open" and "free" software, a > lot of poor design and architecture makes it brittle. ...I'd suggest looking at (and borrowing from, speaking of nntp libs) slrn and tin. > Whether it's POP or IMAP or NNTP that gets used for moving messages > *could* be abstracted away, but lessons aren't being learned. And > until people are motivated to pay for better software, they shouldn't > be surprised when they don't get it. Both of these are what I'd call better software, although they're both character cell terminal (no GUI) newsreaders. Billy Y.. -- sub #'9+1 ,r0 ; convert ascii byte add #9.+1 ,r0 ; to an integer bcc 20$ ; not a number