From: Terje Bless (link@tss.no)
Date: Sat Oct 21 2000 - 19:57:46 CDT
On 21.10.00 at 18:21, Erland Sommarskog <sommar@algonet.se> wrote:
>But in a mailer like Outlook Express, you have to select Properties and
>then press some more buttons before you see it. And yo may think that
>Outlook Express is a shitty mailer, but a lot of people use it.
Actually -- from talking to people involved with OE et.al. and my
experience with MS products -- I suspect they would welcome both MCT and
PAM with open arms. This is a fairly typical feature for them to adopt.
(Are you still lurking here Dan? Want to comment in context of `rage?)
The flip side is of course that if you are using OE you have bigger
problems then lack of support for PAM and I frankly don't much care that it
passes you by. If you use a crappy mailer you're going to get into trouble
in numerous ways that makes PAM insignificant.
Hell, that's why y'all were spared my presence for 18 months; I was stuck
in a job where I had only Outlook and, trust me on this, you do *not* want
to use Outlook for Internet email!
The point is: You can't say "OE makes it hard so we can't do that". You may
as well argue that no legacy software supports it, and then you get into
the trap that we are forced into stagnation because we can't put in
anything new until "all" clients support it. If that was our aim we should
have had a BCP out two years ago!
-- As a cat owner, I know this for a fact... Nothing says "I love you" like a decapitated gopher on your front porch.