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- Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> writes:
- > If I were providing an IMAP server for a mailing list archive, I
- > would not want to keep track of the per-user state for each of the thousands
- > of users who might want to peruse the archive.
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- That's a site-policy issue. There's a tradeoff between the level of
- service you want to give users and the amount of resources you want to
- devote to providing those users that service.
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- In what I interpret Bob Morgan's example to be (a group of limited
- size accessing common mailing list archives), a site woud want to
- devote the resources to provide per-user /SEEN state. In Keith
- Moore's example (thousands of users accessing an archive site), a site
- may well decide not to provide users any per-user cross-session state.
-
- It's also possible that some sites may wish to provide different users
- different levels of service. A well-designed ACL mechanism should be
- able to do this.
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