For Dan Morse

[Steve Lamb]

Thursday, March 23, 2000, 11:40:12 AM, Alexander wrote:
> 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 ;->

    I didn't change the quote, that is exactly what he wrote.  I'm sure if he
felt so inclined he could forward you a copy of the message that the above
quote is from.

> 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.

    Yes, that is what is is.  So where's the problem?  One daemon listening to
both ports at once.

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