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From: Joe Hildebrand <hildjj@fuentez.com>
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Subject: Re: Let's get effective!
Date: 15 Mar 1996 12:41:43 -0700
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> "Timo" == Timo Metzemakers <metzemakers@labri.u-bordeaux.fr> writes:

   Timo> I think I did such a thing (actually it was just a quick
   Timo> hack).  I talked to RMS about it, but he was adamant about
   Timo> doing any gdbm-related stuff in a subprocess.  So I dropped
   Timo> the matter.

Couldn't we just write a sub-process that did this, then?  It's
interface would look a heckuva lot like an nntp server...  At that
point, though, I guess we have written an IMAP server.

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Joe Hildebrand                  Fuentez Systems Concepts
hildjj@fuentez.com              Lead Software Engineer
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