Monday, January 10, 2000, 7:46:37 PM, John wrote:
> the standard advice to programmers about to implement a newsreader is
> to stop, read the standard RFCs (822, 977, 1036), read Son-of-RFC1036
Should have left it at "stop". :)
> i) a good newsreader must have a Reply by Mail
> command. This should be integrated with the email account structure in
> a combined client, even if the regular emailing UI is not visible.
Uhm, no. Why would you want that? If you're telling it to be a dedicated
news client let it call your mail application to send the mail. This is
violating the very same thing you complained Outlook of doing. ;)
> ii) I occasionally have need to approve news postings on a private moderated
> newsgroup. Since these arrive via mail, it would be nice to be able to
> inject them into the news system directly rather than cut'n'paste into
> a separate newsreader.
Same here.
>> Well, you're right on that point. I can see how you would be concerned.
>> Let's just hope that TB v2.0 meets everyone's standards, preferably
>> exceed them.
> I'll drink to that!
I won't. It is impossible to meet everyone's standards, much less exceed
them. I don't think setting unobtainable goals is something we should be
toasting.
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