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Date: Thu,  8 Dec 2005 01:30:29 +0000
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
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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