At 01:53 08-01-2013, Eliot Lear wrote:
It's probably escaped our notice because of the holidays, Mark Crispin
passed away on the 28th of December. I didn't know Mark too well, but
he was a very important visionary.
Mark Crispin wrote 25 RFCs between April 1977 and June 2008. He is
the author of the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP4rev1) and he
wrote c-client library which is the reference for IMAP. I learned a
lot through his comments. Quoting one of his messages:
"Instead of asking for new features from UW, think about implementing those
features yourself. Study the code. Try to understand it. Ask questions
about the internals to the remaining UW people while you still
have a chance
of getting an answer."
Regards,
-sm