Ken Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in response to a message from me:
> >If Microsoft decides to exploit their strong market position by making
> >MLM software widely available which easy to use but which does not
> >interoperate well with most e-mail clients on non-Microsoft operating
> >systems, then the internet has a problem.
>
> Err...where have you been? 8) We managed to filter the winmail.dat files,
> we managed to deal with the incomprehensible error messages from Exchange,
> we'll learn to adapt to or annihilate all new Microsoft schema.
As long as the MLM software runs on a unix machine it is generally no big
issue to filter out unwanted garbage. What I fear is that this may become
much harder...
> People do not subscribe to mailing lists to use their new Microsoft
> products. People subscribe to mailing lists to get information. If the
> Microsoft products get in the way of the information, then (presumably)
> people will abandon their bad proprietary sw and get good cooperative sw,
> in order to get the information they want.
The problem is that when the mailing lists which have the good information
are hosted on bad mailing list sw, end users (at other ends) may be forced
to use e-mail software which cooperates with the weird message format used
by that broken mailing list software.
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Norbert Bollow, Zuerich, Switzerland Backup E-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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