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MBOX-Line: From janssen at parc.com Tue Mar 20 18:43:49 2007
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To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
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From: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.com>
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Date: Fri Jun 8 12:34:38 2018
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Subject: IMAP Wiki [was: Re: [Imap-protocol] IMAP features: which clients
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use them?]
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In-Reply-To: <46008660.2040107@avaya.com>
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References: <07Mar20.114847pst."57996"@synergy1.parc.xerox.com>
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<20070320133052.S8455@orthanc.ca>
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<07Mar20.133147pst."57996"@synergy1.parc.xerox.com>
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<1174428749.1318.94.camel@hurina>
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<07E59C2E-717C-4CD3-A668-6059C9F3AC0D@goodserver.com>
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<1174437211.1318.113.camel@hurina> <46008660.2040107@avaya.com>
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Message-ID: <07Mar20.174358pst."57996"@synergy1.parc.xerox.com>
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> I do know Wikipedia's policies and this is not a good idea.
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> Wikipedia's content is restricted to "encyclopedic" topics,
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> with information sourced from "reliable secondary sources".
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> A list of IMAP clients and what protocol extensions they
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> support, created by the subscribers to this list, would almost
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> certainly be what Wikipedia calls "original research" (which
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> is prohibited). Wikipedia does have articles on IMAP and
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> a variety of other topics of interest to subscribers of this
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> list. A non-exhaustive list of what should not be at Wikipedia
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> is at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NOT>.
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I don't think this is "original research", by their definition: "such
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as proposing theories and solutions, original ideas, defining terms,
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coining new words, etc." It would be a collection of hard facts, a
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consensus of experts.
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Bill
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