On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Jesper <[email protected]> wrote: >> Because I've already seen how ignorance about how IMAP works is already >> threatening to lead this thing off into the weeds. If you're going to write >> an IMAP client, a deep understanding of IMAP is not optional or something >> you can just 'pick up as needed'. >
> Fifty or so "enthusiasts" show up hat in hand on Brent's doorstep at > the drop of a weblog post to try to define a good email client. They > are encouraged to discuss wildly, and for some reason, not all of them > know everything about IMAP. Some of them don't know the first thing > about IMAP. But all of them are actually encouraged to fend for their > features right now. It's a way of letting a thousand (feature) flowers > bloom. Once this has gone on for long enough, consensus will > eventually build for a series of features that we will need, and the > plan will solidify. > > We're not lead into the weeds because we need not > follow, as manifest implementation plan, every single idea weathered > right here. > > And please assume that ideas that are unimplementable > or bad form will eventually be rooted out during the process. Well said. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
