On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Russell Nelson wrote:

> =?iso-8859-2?Q?Ond=F8ej=20Sur=FD?= writes:
> 
>  > Could someone comment this?
> 
> Yeah.  Mark Crispin doesn't like Dan Bernstein; therefore anything Dan
> Bernstein does has technical problems which "don't scale" and are "a
> support nightmare."  Mark doesn't want to hear what I have to say
> about IMAP (which Mark invented).  Maybe if I just sent him the piles
> of hair I wrenched out of my head while reading the IMAP spec, he'd
> get the point?  Nahhhh......  He thinks that all the stupid design
> decisions he made (e.g. having three string representations) were
> necessary.

I concur.  RFC 2060 is a joke.  I had to read it at least half a dozen
times before I was able to figure out what it was actually trying to say.



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