Paul Flint <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Josh Sled wrote: >> I don't understand your comment about "the stigma that comes with being >> monopolistic", though? What in the world are you referring to? >> > Microsoft Outlook was the first program I ever encountered that did the > following things: > > 1. Created the concept of email viruses. > 2. Started insisting that things go html. > 3. Ate entire organizations and government communications systems. > > How they became a monopoly email system is beyond me. That was (and is) the > point.
They became hugely prevalent in email because they had a reasonable offering (Exchange) from a respected vendor (MS) who also had a monopoly position from which to push it. That there's still only one reasonable open-source alternative for Exchange, even though everyone *hates* Exchange, all these years later has gotta be proof of something. HTML email is successful because people ultimately want to send richly-formatted email, and HTML is a good way to do that. That's why pretty much *every* GUI email program allows it, not just Microsoft products. As for viruses, I'm not sure how that relates to whatever your point is. In any case, I'm still not sure how a professional group like the vtSDA wanting to send richly-formatted, well-designed mailings to promote its events invokes the "stigma [of] being monopolistic". > We have a meeting coming up. What are the particulars involved in this? Does your email client also lack a search feature? ;) http://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0903&L=VAGUE&T=0&F=&S=&P=8146 http://www.uvm.org/vague/wiki/index.php/Tuesday%2C_Mar_17%2C_2009 -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}
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