Re: [Asrg] Patrik Falstrom's mailflow chart -- "upstream

On Feb 19 2004, David Nicol wrote:
> 
> Hey -- doing this doesn't even require new protocols.  IMAP includes
> facility for moving a message from one folder to another, does it
> not?  An ad-hoc standard could be implemented entirely by defining
> special implications of moving a message into a folder with a
> particular name.

I think you're temporarily forgetting that different countries have
different names for things. It's allright to insert a message header
defacto in English, but relying on a folder named "Junk" won't
work. Moreover, what happens when the user rearranges his folders
months later?

-- 
Laird Breyer.