MBOX-Line: From arnt at gulbrandsen.priv.no  Mon Jul 13 01:13:09 2009
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:42 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] off-topic: stats on mail duplication, mailing
	list sizes, etc?
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David Rauschenbach writes:
> As for my role in things... the legacy protocols will still be the 
> best way to push content out to phones, and in that regard, IMAP has 
> that very useful disconnected mode, whereas Wave looks like it's for 
> broadband tethered devices only.

IMAP has the very useful property that it uses ordinary email addresses. 
The kind of address which everyone has.

IPeople have predicted the death of 822 email for some time now; doesn't 
seem to happen. Anecdote alert I suppose, but the last time my dance 
club asked for its members' contact details, email had shifted _up_ to 
the top spot.

Arnt

