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"Minimum" and "Evil" servers

Eric Rizzo <erizzo@deathstar.med.miami.edu> Wed, 27 August 1997 16:09 UTC

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From: Eric Rizzo <erizzo@deathstar.med.miami.edu>
To: Mark Crispin <MRC@cac.washington.edu>
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Subject: "Minimum" and "Evil" servers
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Mark Crispin wrote:
> 
<snip> 
> I wonder if it wouldn't be better instead to have a specific description of
> what is a *minimum* compliant server, and specify that clients must
> interoperate with it.
> 
> It might also be useful to conjure a "evil" server implementation that screws
> the client every chance it gets (e.g. "LIST *" causes 100,000 randomly
> generated names to be returned, CREATE/DELETE/RENAME all return NO, INBOX has
> 10,000 messages,...

Mark,
	Are you offering to produce either/both of these?  I think they'd be
invaluable tools for client developers, especially the second for
testing and design iteration purposes.


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Eric Nicholas Rizzo                            University of Miami
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