Re: moving mail between folders is intermittently failing

On Fri, 7 May 2010, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> i'll be way more impressed when you actually propose something that
> works on a large scale instead of insisting on your idealized worldview
> and insulting the intelligence of everyone who tries to solve very real
> problems.

Problems are not solved by violating specifications.

Problems are not solved by prattling "I am in the real world", "I am
trying to solve very real problems", "your idealized world" when what you
really mean is that you are too lazy to work out how to solve problems AND
comply with specifications.

It takes hard work, and time, to understand a problem well enough to
design, build, and deploy the correct solution.  It is tempting to throw
together a kludge that covers up the symptom, and let the problems caused
by the kludge be Someone Else's Problem.

And that is how crapware is produced.

If you think that you can create something better than IMAP, hop to it.
Judging from what I've seen of KDE, I'm not particularly worried.

-- Mark --

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Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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