Good book on Cyrus?

[Perry Brown]

>
>Forrest Aldrich wrote:
>>
>>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:
>>>>
>>>>     http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mimap/chapter/ch09.html
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>
>>
>>This would be a wonderful idea.  I think this is well overdue, 
>>particularly after the addition of Cyrus Murder.
>>
>>A great opportunity to get more Cyrus out there, and better reference, 
>>examples, etc.
>
>Assuming the potential authors know what they're talking about  ;)
>
I wanted to throw in there that a Cryus Cookbook would be good as well. Kind 
of like the Sendmail and Perl Cookbooks. sigh