From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar@algonet.se)
Date: Mon Jul 09 2001 - 03:25:32 CDT
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> This isn't what you said. What you said is that you don't like a part of
> MIME and think it should be changed in mail as well.
Not really. I said it good be a good side effect if authors of combined
news/mail agents would be compelled to not routinely transfer the mail
code to news, and if the rewrite would lead to the mail agents being
changed too.
> I maintain that if your objections are not *netnews-specific*, they are
> best directed to a working group that is not netnews-specific.
They are netnews-specific so far that the damage is bigger in news than
in mail.
> At the very least, I have to wonder why you're not presenting your
> arguments to the people who could actually effect the changes that you
> apparently want, and instead are only presenting them in this working
> group where none of those people are listening.
Because my profession is to be employ my skills with MS SQL Server,
and hanging out here is some sort of hobby activity, to keep a check
that things are bad from the perspective of Swedish news users
slips into a news RFC.
My time for fighting IETF windmills in general is, to make an understatement,
limited.
-- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se