Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: first release of IMAP software Message-ID: <3666@phri.UUCP> Date: 8 Feb 89 19:01:49 GMT References: Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 17 mrc@TOMOBIKI-CHO.CAC.WASHINGTON.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes: > The IMAP software is now ready for distribution from SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU > (internet address [36.44.0.6]). Several problems. First, when I did "ftp sumex-aim.stanford.edu" I got connected to sumex-2060.stanford.edu. I can't seem to reproduce it, so maybe it was some transient nameserver problem? But, the real point of this message is to remind people that when they announce the availability of software, it would be a good idea to give some idea of what it was. I havn't the foggiest idea what IMAP is and there isn't even a READ-ME file that I can ftp; to figure out if I want it I have to pull the whole 365 kbyte compressed tar file from one coast to the other. -- Roy Smith, System Administrator Public Health Research Institute {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net "The connector is the network"