- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 21:08:41 -0800
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@apache.org>
- CC: www-tag@w3.org, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com
"Roy T. Fielding" wrote: > >... > > It wouldn't be less useful. The point is that it would gain nothing > from doing so. It is a store and forward messaging system -- the application > consists of delivering the message, that's all. If you were tasked with inventing a protocol for fetching mail from a remote server, would you choose to make it a specialization of HTTP or not? I'm not asking whether there is sufficient cost/benefit to replace POP, IMAP, etc. Probably there is not. I'm asking how you decide when to invent a new application protocol or just use HTTP. Paul Prescod
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