Monday, January 10, 2000, 11:51:08 PM, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Oh, this is bad. This speaks very badly for TB! production if this is
> true. Effective newsreading is completely different than effective email
> reading. Why they share common technical specifications and appear, on the
> surface, to also share a lot in how they are processed it simply is not the
> case. All I see this is leading heavily into code bloat, especially with the
> ominous reference to "ideology."
I can't disagree with that. Newsreading is a VERY VERY different thing
than mailreading. Other headers, other protocols, other
specifications, other rfcs etc etc. Not to mention that news are not
folder oriented in the context of mbx files. Each newsgroup is a
directory and each message is a file in this directory (much like as
MH). You have to write code to handle nntp connection, fetching
newsgroups,update them, catch new groups etc etc.
One of my part-time jobs was the news administrating, here in
university of Crete
LG>>> - Will version 2.0 fully support HTML both in sending,
>> Yes.
> Very bad.
No, it's not very bad. It is worst than very bad. It is VERY VERY VERY
bad :((((
LG>>> and viewing href'd images?
>> This will be possible when we will write our own Web browser - I
>> guess, this is a topic for another interview, but you should wait for
>> it for several months :-)
> Very, VERY bad.
For the new browser I don't care as long as it doesn't interfere with
the development of Mailer. But it would be difficult. Here in Greece
we have a saying "More than one watermellons doesn't seat in one
armpit"
LG>>> - Will v2.0 support hooks for virus scanning attachments to messages?
>> Yes.
> *VERY* Bad.
Well, I cannot agree with you. To right click an attachment and the
appearence of option to scan it couldn't be bad !!
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