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>>>>> "WM" == Wayne McGuire <wmcguire@cybercom.net> writes:
WM> These are just a few of the companies and products that are strongly
WM> committed to the future of HTML/XML mail and messaging: ABC, AOL, CNN,
WM> Eudora, IBM, InfoBeat, Lotus Notes, Microsoft, Netscape, The New York
WM> Times, Pegasus, Red Herring and ZDNet.
And which of these companies have any experience drafting open standards?
Microsoft? "Microsoft Mail: as far from RFC 821 & RFC 822 as you can get
and still pretend to care." Lotus? Unlike Microsoft, Lotus has never
bothered pretending to care, their network software is so badly broken.
The only one I see is Netscape, and that is only because they have recently
decided that yes, proprietary Internet standards are a bad idea. The rest
of them are publishers of one sort or another, not what anyone with a clue
would consider high credentials for drafting standards.
It is the Allmighty Bullet Chart driving this "strong commitment to the
future of HTML/XML mail messaging". Nobody wants to have a product with
fewer bullets than everyone else. The clueless goofs, the same lusers
putting zillions of dollars into Bill Gates' pockets, do not know that a
bullet on a review chart shows *NOTHING* about how well the program does
what it is supposed to do.
The sad thing is that they do not want to learn better. They believe they
are happy remaining blissfully stupid. All those companies you list know
it, so they continue to foster that belief, because it keeps them in
business.
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