From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 26 10:17:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28997 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:17:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from muswell.demon.co.uk (muswell.demon.co.uk [158.152.10.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA28963 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:17:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk) Received: (from ruth@localhost) by muswell.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.6.12) id RAA00424; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 17:36:24 GMT Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 17:36:24 GMT Message-Id: <199803261736.RAA00424@muswell.demon.co.uk> From: ruth moulton MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Sue Blake Cc: james huckle , "'FreeBSD Newbie Submission'" Subject: Re: FW: Email [was: Squid will that be fried ?] In-Reply-To: <19980327025609.38906@welearn.com.au> References: <4B5AD1A1DC97D1118E720060976D80F40DDB@msx.xch.net> <19980327025609.38906@welearn.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Cc: ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sue > I find this approach reprehensible, no matter which company does it. > I don't like paying any software company to make me look a fool. > Many different companies have tried. another point of using standards is so that we can all communicate, no matter whose software we're using. It's fine for Claris or MS to do their own thing, and maybe they do it better, but it doesn't help the rest of us using other o/s or software if they do it * in a proprietry way, * do not openly publish what it is they're doing * re-do functionallity rather than participate in the global standards process to get the open standards right etc etc. e.g. I seem to get application/ms-tnef body parts from MS Outlook which I believe may be receipt notifications, why doesn't it use Message Dispostion Notifications which are defined openly in a draft RFC - (which also contain human readable and machine readable parts) and so on Ruth -- ================================================ Ruth Moulton ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk Consultant 65 Tetherdown, London N.10 1NH, UK Tel:+44 181 883 5823 -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message