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Date:         Tue, 23 May 2000 14:00:31 -0600
Reply-To:     "Brush, John" <jbrush@HMGSL.COM>
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From:         "Brush, John" <jbrush@HMGSL.COM>
Subject:      Re: MIME Message! (non-vw related)
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For those of us who believe that standards are necessary, the internet is was/is based on standards. Standards developed way before there was a company built on the concept that standards are meant to be broken; every day. They are available to anyone who wants to look them up and use them.

Email is defined by the internet standard as text based, ascii only, files. It does not allow for HTML, or MIME, or any of the other variants so stupidly introduced by the behemoth for the purpose of locking people into its method of thinking.

There are all kinds of standards for internet usage, such as the TCPIP protocol, and methods of transmission. To not adhere to accepted standards fractures the structure of the internet and causes all kinds of problems for users and basically means that it is NOT a free and open architecture. Then users end up bickering and arguing amongst themselves. No productivity in that, is there?

I don't use microsoft products except when forced to do so by an employer. Those of us who choose other than M$ get particularly peeved when standards are broken for no apparent reason, other than because "I can" Other operating systems are built around the accepted internet standards we have, and when someone with a large base such as M$ deliberately goes out and breaks the rules, it costs a lot of people a lot of time and frustration. Witness this discussion :)

The internet should look the same for every user so that everyone can take advantage of it without bowing to the mighty man from Redmond. If folks continue to just go along, why not just give the whole damn thing to gates and get it over with??

Anybody ever heard of Lynx?

Gee, and its not even friday, but notice I didn't mention the "G" word :-)

Regards from Utah,

John


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