ietf-nntp Selective download of MIME multipart/alternative in NNTP

Brian Hernacki bhern at netscape.com
Fri May 29 08:36:50 PDT 1998


Ned Freed wrote:
> 
> Actually, IMAP was built to be a message access protocol (just like the name
> says), and news as a source of messages was taken into consideration throughout
> the design. (Indeed, there are a bunch of things in IMAP that are considerably
> more complex that than they need to be to deal with email alone.)
> 
> You may not agree with some of the decisions that were made as part of the
> design, but it is nevertheless incorrect to say that IMAP wasn't built to
> accomodate news. It was.

That may have been then intent but not the outcome. But this gets
religious fast and isn't the point of this mailing list.

--brian
Opinions are mine, not Netscape's



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