Jim Segrave enlightened us with: > Any lecturer assigning "write a mail server" as a class project is > doing his/her students a true dis-service.
At one time, I got an assignment "Write a robust, user friendly SMTP client". That was just after we learned how to user 'for' loops and 'if' statements. Talk about dis-services ;-) Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list