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- > * Storing this type of state information on the client is contrary to
- > the goal of nomadic access. Users cannot access the server from
- > different clients without moving the state information between the
- > clients.
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- And putting the state information on the server is contrary to the
- goal of fault-tolerance and scalability. There might reasonably be a
- need for multiple, redundant mailing list archives.
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- I can see a mail reader talking to two IMAP servers at once -- a mailing
- list archive server to peruse the old messages, and the user's "home"
- mailbox server -- to keep track of seen state. I can also envision
- the "home" mailbox server as sort of "local cache" for a particular list,
- where the mail reader will fetch articles from a remote server if necessary,
- to present a unified view of the list traffic. (In which case, readers
- would not have to subscribe to a list that they read only occasionally...)
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- Keith
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