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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Popd support for elm
Keywords: elm popd
Message-ID: <1989Nov24.021808.26638@DSI.COM>
Date: 24 Nov 89 02:18:08 GMT
References: <1636@paperboy.OSF.ORG> <1989Nov19.174809.13914@DSI.COM> <197@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) writes:

>which Syd Weinstein responds, rather bluntly, with:
>> [Elm doesn't support POPD] because no one thought it important enough 
>> to do it.

>As it turns out, Syd is incorrect.  Back in 1988 I thought it was quite 
>important to do and actually spent a few months working on adding a 
>generic POPD support layer to the entire Unix electronic mail 
>infrastructure.
[...]
>I do, however, find it objectionable that Syd would respond in 
>such a summary and negative fashion without inquiring further about
>possible ways to hook Elm and POPD together.
I guess I should have been more specific.  No one currently in
the elm development process considered it important enough to put
it on the wish list.  That users request is the first it has come up.

I'll admit, I was not aware, Dave, that you had done some work on that
topic.  As usual, all submissions of patches will be considered.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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