On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:24:36PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Unfortunately, as is usually the case with interoperability problems, > there's no clear place to go first: mutt doesn't want to change because > it's using the open standard correctly and m$ doesn't want to change > because it's using the open standard incorrectly. Can anybody on this > list tell you why? Not really; here you'll only find guesses and > opinions on the matter, and they'll all have the same slant. There's one > easy way to avoid the cacophony: don't ask about m$ mailers on a debian > users' list. To Royce's credit, he didn't actually ask about any M$ product on the list. He asked about some messages appearing as attachments instead of inline. Just so happened that the reason was M$. And he does have a point. The anti-M$ sentiment has led to a number of comments on this list that, were I thinking of transitioning to Linux, would deter me from doing so because self-righteousness is rarely very friendly. Of course, I'm pretty sure I moan and groan louder than most every time I encounter M$, so should probably shut up. :) -ben -- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, ben@hartshorne.net All thoughts that held us wiser for a moment ben.hartshorne.net Up there, alone, in the impartial dark. -M. Oliver My PGP key is at /pgp.txt. Please encrypt all communications.
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