[Wylug-discuss] List Etiquette: Top Posting vs. Bottom Posting

[John Leach]

In fact, the POP3 protocol has the command TOP which is used to retrieve
the first n lines of the message body.  I guess we can safely assume the
POP3 protocol designers were all a bunch of top posters.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1939.txt

(it's only an optional command but is "STRONGLY encourage[d]")

I'm sure we can all now be in agreement and that this matter can finally
be laid to rest ;)

John.

On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 17:43 +0000, Lee Evans wrote:
> >Neither IMAP nor POP downloads line-by-line.  POP will download the
> >whole message whether you read it or not, IMAP might be able to save
> >time by splitting headers and body, but it will still download the whole
> >body if you start to read a message.  You might save some time (assuming
> >you never have to read context) with a webmail browser, but you won't
> >save bandwidth.  This is a non-argument.
> 
> That's not true - a large proportion of mobile devices allow you to
> configure a POP/IMAP email account and specify a finite limit on the amount
> of message you download, usually in KB.
> 

> Lee
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