Hmmm....let's me clear about this. Is this the guy who came from IBM, who worked on the VM SMTP system? I detest him so much that I've put his name out of my mind. Sat on this for an hour and it came to me - Matt Korn? I've also seen him quoted as a "speaker" for AOL. At 06:41 PM 11/15/99 -0600, Adam Bailey wrote: >On 11/15/99 1:26 PM, Nick Simicich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... > >>I suspect, for private reasons, that AOL's e-mail system was designed by a >>moron studying to be an idiot. > >I chat occasionally with that very person. He's no moron. A moron would >be hard-pressed to design a mail system that handles more email than any >other in existence. While mishandling a significant percentage of it. Dropping it on the floor is one way of "handling" it. It is not a good way. Misidentifying mail as containing attachments when it does not is another fine example of mishandling. >The kinds of problems you're talking about are due to management, not >design. Please be more careful before you levy accusations and insults at >the people that you don't know. Management made the decision to design a spam catcher that throws mail away? I guess.....Management made the decision to parse mail incorrectly? I doubt it. -- Do you have 10 years experience? Or one month's experience repeated 120 times? Nick Simicich mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or (last choice) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scifi.squawk.com/njs.html -- Stop by and Light Up The World!
