From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 09 2001 - 03:52:17 CDT
Erland Sommarskog <sommar@algonet.se> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>> 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.
This is precisely what I don't agree with. I think the damage, such as it
is, is equivalent in news and mail, or if anything more severe in mail.
People on Usenet complain more, but I've seen far more in the way of real
interoperability problems with mail than with Usenet.
In both places, given the complexity of the problem that it's trying to
solving and the absolutely abominable quality of some of the MIME
implementations (which isn't the fault of the specification), it still
works surprisingly well.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>