On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 11:03:26PM -0000, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Tim Pierce writes:
> > Sounds great! I'm all ears. Where do we submit bug reports for
> > Microsoft Internet Mail, Microsoft Outlook, and WebTV?
>
> The problem (as I see it) is that there is no requirements or even
> guidelines for MUAs. How's about we get all the mailing list manager
> people together, and bash out a set of requirements that a mailing
> list-friendly MUA will have. Then we either find a group to publish
> them, or else create our own group, and publish them ourselves.
>
If all the freely available MUAs and MTAs and list managers decide that they
will stick to certain reasonable standards, there will be enough protest
from frustrated subscribers to force Microsoft and friends to make their
MUAs compatible with these standards.
ISPs instead of lowering their standards, perhaps should start giving away
smart (and friendly) MUAs to their customers. If these do not exist
yet---sponsor projects that would make them.
-- --- Mate Wierdl | Dept. of
Math. Sciences | University of Memphis
