For Dan Morse

[Alexander Sarras]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 11:44:50 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:

> 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.
> 

That's what I start to wondering about: 
> > Read it again.  He said "IMAP/POP".  Since many mailservers do both at
> > the same time, that is what he was referring to .
>  Really, you mean I do a request on the POP-port(110), which then is also
> answered on the IMAP-port (143) ?

leading directly to:
> > Sigh!   I wish people would use their heads once in a while.

So, there might be days I can get pissed off more easily than on others.
SaS
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