From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: imap.el in net??
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:45:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v91w9qtovf.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwsricz2q.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:58:24 -0500")
On Thu, Dec 13 2007, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Could someone explain to me why we moved gnus/imap.el to net/imap.el
>> rather than to the more obvious mail/imap.el?
Simon suggested "net" and nobody came up with other suggestions within
a week, see <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/82283/focus=83269>
(hidden in the thread "SASL related files in gnus/").
>> I chose `net' because it seemed more appropriate than `mail'
>> for a program to communicate directly thru the network.
>> However, I do not want to argue the issue.
>
> Its sole purpose is to access remote mailboxes, so it seems to count as
> "mail" to me. What do others think?
I would have chosen "mail" as well, but I don't have a strong opinion.
Bye, Reiner.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-13 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-12 19:16 imap.el in net?? Stefan Monnier
2007-12-13 16:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-13 16:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-13 18:45 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
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