At 11:22 16.03.00 +0000, Charles Lindsey wrote:
That illustrates a general principle with regard to user agents. If there
is some new functionality on offer, the marketplace will surely provide
products to support it. Those that require the new functionality will
happily buy the new products. Those who don't need it won't bother.
Counterexample: delivery and receipt reports.
X.400 proved that people will buy product that support it.
The experience since the SMTP equivalents got standardized is that the MTAs
will send them, but the UAs will not process them.
We have proved?
Harald
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