On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 at 17:36:35, Dave wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
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>On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Michael Grunditz wrote:
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>> Email using tcp/ip ? Do you have a working stack ?
>
>Well, tricky answer. SOQL, but this is all development work for the
>EtherIDE interface I'm helping Nasta with. We'll be sending out a couple
>of prototypes to people who are working on TCP/IP so we can hopefully have
>some working net functionality when it gets a general release...
>
>> I am interseted to help you in writing tcp/ip clients, or an alternative
>> to tcp/ip. UUCP ?:)
>
>Excellent. I would like to have a few people working together with the
>code accessible to developers - also making it modular so we can reuse
>blocks in things like telnet, FTP, and maybe a text html parsing
>procedure... etc etc
>
>> Less features:-)
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>Well, less is more. Clive taught me that.
... but it is 'fewer'
Amazing the way English (and American I think) has lost good English
from Tony Blair through the BBC to schools.
people, features, bricks (discreet - ie countable) - many. fewer
sand, flour, water (not-countable) - much, less
OK it is good that language evolves, but losing a subtlety of meaning
like this using existing words in the wrong context is bad.
NOT your fault Michael - you are in very good and numerous company (8-(#
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