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On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:14:54AM +0000, Theo Zourzouvillys wrote: > > > WebDAV could also easily replace IMAP and POP3. > > Are you volunteering to write a fetchmail-replacement? WebDAV? Replacing IMAP? AND pop? Whoa, must be one of those elusive silver bullets. > maybe one day ;) Other things such as storing mail in XML format are first, > imho. All the mail addons like MIME and PGP have just been hacked on. > Somethign new needs to come about, first. XML! Another "so-called" silver bullet. I will have my mail in mbox format anyday. I just would hate to think about my mail in XML with all those tags, and an inability for tools to store and retrieve it as you would expect. > someone needs to wake up all the software and systems engineers workign for > ISP's, they seem to have fallen sleep about 4 years ago, and not woken up > since. If it works, don't update it. :) My lecturer told a little story about how TCP version 4 was introduced. Arpanet sysadmins mailed everyone a couple of days before saying if you want your box to work next week, install TCP4, otherwise Goodbye!. -Kai p.s. http://xmlsucks.org/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.