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- From: MITCHELL@UTHSCSA (Scott J. Mitchell)
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- Subject: RE: two minor points
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- Date: 13 Aug 92 17:11:55 GMT
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- I did something boneheaded to my mail account yesterday, and missed Ned's
- first response to my remark about the multipart nondelivery notices. From
- the ensuing discussion I gather it was somewhat heated. I think that most
- of us who post suggestions here consider the following points to be implicit
- in what we write, but perhaps I should have been explicit:
-
- 1. It's well known that an apparently trivial modification may
- in fact be very difficult to implement (and sometimes vice
- versa). Clearly, an option to control the notice format falls
- into this class, and having found that out I wouldn't dream
- of pressing the issue any further.
-
- 2. I don't know anyone familiar with Innosoft who considers them
- anything less than a model for all other software concerns.
- By pointing out a fly in the ointment--a microbe, really--I
- didn't mean to express a lack of enthusiasm for the MIME
- implementation, with which Innosoft is doing almost singlehandedly
- what the entire X.400 community has been struggling to pull
- off for eight years.
-
- So please add these as footnotes to my original comment, which still seems
- perfectly reasonable to me. Now, can someone send me a copy of that
- message? I hate to miss an instance of Ned's writing, even if it means
- getting a whole can of whup-ass poured on me.
-
- Scott Mitchell
- University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- mitchell@uthscsa.edu
- mitchell@uthscsa.bitnet
-