Uday Reddy writes: > I guess you are a "natural scientist" of some form. Unfortunately, software > is not part of nature, it is man-made. Decisions in software should be made > based on what is defined and documented, not how things appear.
Sorry to intervene, but even though that is correct > So, > "evidence" is practically useless! this is not a universal conclusion. If it were, then reverse engineering closed source software would be impossible, because there you do exaxtly that: You try to look for evidence (either by sniffing, disassembling, etc.) that the software does a certain thing. Even for well documented software the conclusion only applies if what you want to to with it is part of what is documented, which is not always the case. Granted, in the context of this discussion (viewmail/thunderbird) the conclusion does hold but only because both are well documented and what he wants to do is covered in it. Bye, Moritz
