Timothy C. May writes:
one way or the other, and will join the rest of the world (apparently) in using Netscape.
This from "Mr. Ascii" as of six months ago. Everyone remember when Tim was flaming MIME and the rest? Well, Netscape was out back then, too.
And yes, I am "marginalizing" the work that anyone does on "fringe" projects like Linux, which will likely always remain in the ghetto of Unix hackers who want a cheap Unix running on their cheap 486 boxes...it just ain't gonna take over inside corporations or amongst the many folks like me.
I apologise for doing my IPSP work on a marginal operating system like BSD Unix. Were I a truly non-marginalized person, I'd have realized that Novell Netware and Appletalk were the internetworking technologies of the future. I would suggest that you get rid of your web browser while you can -- it was descended from code written for Unix, that marginalized operating system. By the way, I understand Netscape does their development with marginalized machines.
That Qualcomm (Eudora), Netscape, Frontier, Microsoft, Lotus, and others are working on an interoperable "Secure/MIME" should be encouraging.
I'm glad to see you've not been paying attention to the IETF work on MOSS. After all, we are a marginalized group -- we only built the Internet, you know. Perry, writing from the marginalized IETF meeting in Stockholm, where the nowhere people define standards no one uses.