From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:27:27 +1100 From: Adrian Tritschler Subject: Re: [9fans] gmail 0: messages In-reply-to: <20051208013029.GB6804@server4.lensbuddy.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <43979A0F.1080202@ajft.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (X11/20050711) References: <20051207102914.247b74ab.countryjoe@myrealbox.com> <439789C3.5020501@ajft.org> <20051208013029.GB6804@server4.lensbuddy.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: be9fbad6-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Uriel wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:17:55PM +1100, Adrian Tritschler wrote: >=20 >>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? >=20 > It seems to me that people seem to be using IMAP to do (badly) what 9P > is designed to do. I guess I asked for that one. Ok, who wants to ask Google to implement a 9p interface to gmail? > uriel --------------------------------------------------------------- Adrian Tritschler mailto:ajft@ajft.org Latitude 38=C2=B0S, Longitude 145=C2=B0E, Altitude 50m, Shoe size 44 ---------------------------------------------------------------