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- I'd certainly agree this is needed. My impression is that the current
- directory service protocols don't necessarily provide for personal address
- books. Using those protocols in the long run is probably a better idea,
- but I think we'll have the need before they're ready.
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- The proposed way of doing it with the existing options facility seems
- fine. I think what you want it to be able to down load the whole address
- book (for browsing) and send it back up if it was modified.
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- My recollection from some measurements we took on a thousand Pine
- address books at the UW was that they averaged 2Kb or so. Personal
- distribution lists are a *very* popular feature in Pine. Some folks have
- distribution lists with hundreds of entries making for address books over
- 10Kb.
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- The IMSP specification didn't say, but I assume the "set option" creates
- an option entry when it doesn't exist, and that the stored strings can be
- quite long. Say a few Kb, to store a distribution list.
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- LL
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- On Wed, 21 Apr 1993, Bill Yeager wrote:
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- > Yes, something like this is absolutely needed. We are currently trying to
- > decide how to do this (keep address books on servers and retrieve their
- > contents at connect time, and update the servers appropriately) within IMAP
- > using CREATE, DELETE and APPEND, ie, storing the address book entries as
- > messages in a special mailbox. Pretty much a hack.
- >
- > Bill
- >
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