1) I don't see how this should have anything to do with Microsoft, it should be a free and open standard. 2) If you are going 20, 15, or even only 5 years without upgrading your software, then you deserve to be the victim of every single exploit and hole discoved in that software and patched within that time, if you couldn't be bothered to do a simple upgrade.
On 5/7/05, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 04:56:09PM +0000, Calvin Spealman wrote > > > then support for it can grow until everyone will have updated just > > over time. once you know someone's reader has support for it, because > > they send you emails using it, you can send to them without the old > > inline-quoted version. > > AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH NNNNNNNOOOOOOO!!!!!! > > You know what we'll end up with??? "This email best viewed with > Internet Explorer 6.5 at 800X600 resolution and 16,000,000 with Active-X > and Schlockwave-Trash enabled". I do *NOT* want to have to go out and > buy Windows in order to be able to read email. > > Secondly, I can read today's text email with a 15 or 20 year old email > client. (X)HTML doesn't work that way. It's always changing. Try > reading most web pages with a 5-year-old browser and see what I mean. I > should *NOT* have to change my email client every few months to keep up > with deliberate incompatabilities thrown in by Microsoft. > > -- > Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will > eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure, > and has a lower TCO, than linux. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
