>
>Although, there IS a ton of info on AT&T's web site that implies why
>Emailer can't do it... simply because Emailer doesn't support SSL
>connections. Again, this isn't illegal, it isn't AT&T's problem if OE is
>the only email client that supports a public secure transmission standard
>(BTW: OE is NOT the only client that supports SSL)
probably talking out of the incorrect end of my torso here but..........
using history as a teacher -
If MS - OE supports a "a public secure transmission standard" you can be
sure that it is no longer "standard" and MS has done something - what I
could not say - to the "standard" to 'extend and defile' the standard so
that **ONLY** MS products will work with the MS version of the standard.
[see kerberos authentication as an example, there is open source
kerberos, and MS kerberos]
Therefore, (if the above is true), by implementing an MS system which
supports (based on the manner of its engineering) only other MS products,
ATT (or other ISPs) would be doing exactly what is being intimated in the
original post - extending, and supporting, an already existing monopoly.
And since ATT is not only an ISP, but also a cable monopoly (at least in
its areas of operation) thisis actually, a merging of 2 monopolies.
Not only that - but ATT can not (while I might be able to if I were to
start an ISP) declare that the situation was 'unknown to them' since they
have access to (and probably employ) many experts in this area (Mail
servers/clients), and should have been well aware the implications of
implemening the email server system they chose.
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Chip Scheide Systems Coordinator
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
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or ought to be, first to obtain for
rulers men who posses most wisdom to discern,
most virtue to pursue, the common good of society
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