From: Uriel <uriell@binarydream.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] gmail 0: messages
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 01:30:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051208013029.GB6804@server4.lensbuddy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <439789C3.5020501@ajft.org>
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:17:55PM +1100, Adrian Tritschler wrote:
> It seems to me that Gmail (and others) seem to be using POP3 to emulate
> (badly) what IMAP is designed to do. Does anyone know why they (and
> others) choose to do this?
It seems to me that people seem to be using IMAP to do (badly) what 9P
is designed to do.
uriel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-08 1:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-07 17:29 Philippe from Myrealbox
2005-12-07 18:56 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-07 20:47 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-08 1:17 ` Adrian Tritschler
2005-12-08 1:28 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-08 3:00 ` Adrian Tritschler
2005-12-08 3:59 ` Rob Pike
2005-12-08 7:36 ` geoff
2005-12-08 1:30 ` Uriel [this message]
2005-12-08 2:27 ` Adrian Tritschler
2005-12-08 2:35 ` John Floren
2005-12-09 16:13 ` David Leimbach
2005-12-09 22:56 ` Paweł Lasek
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