Keith,
Maybe your comment isn't aimed at the proposal I mentioned, but just for
the record, it *was* prepared in response a real problem - IM (though in
the end not used for that problem), and it was actually used in a product
prototype. And I tried to be quite clear both in the document and in
discussions that it wasn't considered a replacement for any existing
messaging infrastructure.
I happen to see a requirement for extensible message metadata. Beyond just
sending messages, that is. I also think it is valuable if such metadata is
exchangeable between systems.
#g
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At 06:33 PM 5/3/02 -0400, Keith Moore wrote:
> It seems to me that we should be cataloging the kinds of requirements that
> we want from a new message.
It seems to me that we should be trying to solve real problems rather than
trying to invent new things that serve no purpose except to disrupt the
installed base.
If you want to do something useful for email, how about figuring out how to
make it really reliable, or spam-proof, or virus proof?
Keith
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