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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Thu May 27 1999 - 23:44:20
mgraffam@idsi.net
Mon, 5 Apr 1999 13:24:47 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, bram wrote:
> I think client-side proxies is really the way to go - email clients are
> just too diverse to make adding fundamental functionality to them
> feasible.
This is certainly the easiest; but I don't like the concept of "fixing"
email by adding another layer of code on top of the shitbox base that
we have now.
Seriously, folks.. if we are going to run commerce, do business and
have friendships over the damn network, it really outta be fixed up..
one protocol at a time.
Writing proxies makes the programmer's job easier .. but it makes the
user's job harder.. and that means it isn't going to get used.
> I have a feeling whatever Zero Knowledge Systems has come up with is
> pretty good.
However good Freedom may be, to me, and I'd guess a lot of other people,
it will only serve as a target for the level of quality needed to be
obtained by an open source replacement.
I am an open source kinda guy, but I don't hesitate using commericial or
shareware code or whatever... except in the area of privacy/crypto sort of
stuff.
Michael J. Graffam (mgraffam@idsi.net)
"Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine."
Henry David Thoreau "Civil Disobedience"
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Thu May 27 1999 - 23:44:20