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From: Perry Brown (no email)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2006 - 18:08:20 EDT
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>Forrest Aldrich wrote:
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>>Ken Murchison wrote:
>>>Wesley Craig wrote:
>>>>On 17 Jul 2006, at 09:59, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
>>>>>Short answer, there are no good books. Managing IMAP is minimally
>>>>>useful - in a basic sense.
>>>>
>>>>The one salient chapter happens to be online:
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>>>> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mimap/chapter/ch09.html
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>>>>if that helps.
>>>>
>>>>>However, I contacted O'Reilly about a possible "Nutshell" book, and as
>>>>>I recall the response was there were no plans for anything.
>>>>>
>>>>>And so, we have this large scalable product that doesn't have a good
>>>>>book - it's complex enough that it deserves one.
>>>>
>>>>I would think there's a good market fo a Cyrus IMAP book. Did _Managing
>>>>IMAP_ sell particularly poorly?
>>>
>>>I along with several current and former CMU folks have talked numerous
>>>times about writing a Cyrus book (our preference would be to do it with
>>>O'Reilly), but we've never gotten beyond the "it would be a good idea
>>>stage).
>>>
>>>Perhaps if we get a "Cyrus Center" up and running with proper funding,
>>>we'd be able to consider authoring a book more seriously.
>>>
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>>This would be a wonderful idea. I think this is well overdue,
>>particularly after the addition of Cyrus Murder.
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>>A great opportunity to get more Cyrus out there, and better reference,
>>examples, etc.
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>Assuming the potential authors know what they're talking about ;)
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I wanted to throw in there that a Cryus Cookbook would be good as well. Kind
of like the Sendmail and Perl Cookbooks. sigh
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