Hello Allie Martin,
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 18:34:40 -0500 GMT your local time,
which was Monday, January 17, 2000, 6:34:40 AM (GMT+0700) my local time,
Allie Martin wrote:
Allie> On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 12:17:18 -0800, Tom Plunket wrote:
(snip)
Allie> I remember a problem like that which I had in my OS/2 days. I used to
Allie> run a shell enhancement app called X-it and PMMail was my e-mail client.
Allie> Whenever I had X-it running and opened PMMail, PMMail's interface would go
Allie> berserk. The interesting thing was that this did not occur with earlier
Allie> versions of PMMail. Well IMHO at the time, the logical move was to write
Allie> to the PMMail developers who told me that they knew about it and the
Allie> problem was with X-it and that I should ask the X-it developers about it.
Allie> I wrote to the X-it developers only to be told that the problem was
Allie> with PMMail. Needless to say, at this point I was pissed. I ended up being
Allie> the mediator of a technical exchange on whose fault it was (did I really
Allie> care at the time? ...... NO!). The X-it developers ended up being the
Allie> one's to fix things. I'll never know if they simply were practicing what
Allie> you preach Tom, but as the software user, I didn't really care; I was only
Allie> happy. :-/
.This attitude of different suppliers has always existed from the very
first computers.
One of the reasons when building mainframes we got as much as possible
all the parts from the same place to avoid this shuffle why something
doesnt work.
However in this case it seems to me that Novel should be told they
have a bug or a secret feature.
On the other hand, arent programs reading 'field data' which can have
bugs/mistakes supposed to ignore obvious mistakes in email formats or
compensate for it.
Most of my own programs did as otherwise everytime they hit a problem
I had to go and fix it manually...
It shouldnt be that much work to let the bat ignore this error and
then one can advertise the bat as working with Novell...
Best regards,
tracer
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