On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:34:54AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: | Grant Edwards wrote: | | > Anybody who claims they don't want to impliment the standard | > until it's final is just being obtuse -- I suspect the real | > motivation is to intentionally reduce interoperability in an | > attempt to force users of Non-MS MUAs to switch to Outlook. | > That's a typical position for MS to take. | | In fact, Microsoft's official response to the problem of Outlook being | totally unable to read messages that begin with "begin " is that Outlook | users should tell their correspondents to change how they write their | messages. In other words, they admit the problem exists, but refuse to | fix it, and instead try to blame other people whose messages are | perfectly in compliance with all applicable standards. They claim that the problem lies in the SMTP specification. Of course, uuencode has nothing to do with SMTP and (AFAIK) existed long before email did. (see the "More Information" section for that bogus excuse) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q265230&; -D -- A)bort, R)etry, D)o it right this time http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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