For Dan Morse

Alexander Sarras pmmail@rpglink.com
Thu, 23 Mar 2000 20:40:12 +0100 (MEZ)


On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 11:17:53 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:

> >> Many servers listen on both the POP port of 110 AND the IMAP port of
> >> 143.
> 
> > That's what I would've thought, until someone came talking about using
> > heads and doing both AT THE SAME TIME! I may not be a native speaker of
> > english but _I_ know my semantics.
> 
>     Uhm, you sure?  Which part of "AND" in Jonathan's first sentence doesn't
> imply that a single daemon is listening to 110 and 143 at the same time?  :P
> 
Steve, be careful! I'm really fast at losing respect for guys who knowingly
change quotations ;->

The original message said:
> Read it again.  He said "IMAP/POP".  Since many mailservers do both
> at
> the same time, that is what he was referring to .

And the key-part here is at-the-same-time, which together with repeating
the IMAP/POP label give a distinct expression of 1 (one) daemon doing both
ports together simultaneously.

SaS
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