Re: POP3 highest number accessed

Steve Dorner <sdorner@uiuc.edu> Thu, 26 May 1994 01:52 UTC

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From: Steve Dorner <sdorner@uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: POP3 highest number accessed

At 11:29 PM 5/24/94, John Gardiner Myers wrote:
>It seems persistent-LAST and Status: are being used to do exactly the
>same thing.  The problem is that in it is impossible for a client to
>determine that a server does not implement one or the other.

True enough, and one of the reasons I'm abandoning both LAST and Status:.

I think LAST should either be made persistent, and let the implementations
catch up (we will have a patch for popper very soon, BTW), or it should be
removed.  I haven't yet heard anyone argue that a non-persistent LAST has
any value; maybe there's something I can't think of.

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