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- From: sdorner@qualcomm.com (Steven Dorner)
- Subject: Re: RFC-822 toolkit or sources to *decent* reader
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- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 16:02:28 GMT
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- Philippe-Andre Prindeville wrote:
- > I was wondering why (rather than reinvent the wheel) all
- > these mail-reader writers don't just come up with an RFC-822 toolkit
- > that is "correct" and build skeletal interfaces around them?
-
- Rough count shows my MUA has 32000 lines of code. Perhaps 500 of those are
- vaguley related to RFC 822 parsing and RFC 821 transport. Toss in another
- 500 for POP3, and you come up with about 3% of my code having anything at
- all to do with Internet standards. And that's really a pretty generous
- estimate; 1% is probably closer to the truth.
-
- Of course, X and Motif are so simple to use that you won't have that
- problem (chuckle).
-