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.