At 7:37 PM +0000 3/12/03, ietf(_at_)centipaid(_dot_)com wrote:
I had to think a little about your previous comment that URL
could not support attachment, and I think a good transtional
MHF solutions will include a similar interface to what we
see
today in web emails so all the attachment will be accesible
and
can be downloaded.
I would recommend just sending the whole body. Otherwise you've
completely destroyed my filing system by not sending me the content
of the message. I'll end up cut and pasting the message from the web
site and mailing it to myself (and sending you a nasty response).
> For instance, I know a very large insurance company that
requires special permission for their employees to use
the web. Mail sent from your system to theirs (until
they move to your system) will be unreadable by those
employees.
There will be a transition and you can always find a
solution
regardless of the issue. If it does not work for them then
it
will not becuase of their business rules, and not becuase of
the
technology. They can always adapt, add filters, gateways,
etc..
if they feel that it benefits them.
But you've given them no choice in the matter. They are running
SMTP. You're sending via your new system that sends them a link. As
a result, you can no longer communicate with your insurance company.
Now which is going to happen? They are going to change their
security system to to accommodate a few early adopters? They are
going to implement a brand new system that may never take off? Or
they are going to tell you to go back to using SMTP if you want to
communicate with them?
I did not mean that they will use AMDP, but if I have AMDP
installed and they receive a response saying that it costs
them 0.002 to email us, since they are not using AMDP, then
they will pay the 0.002 to get business done.
It all depends on leverage. If you are one customer, and they have a
hundred more who use SMTP, then they are going to tell you to take a
hike.
I saw you post on X.400, and I am sorry that it did not make
it, but you can not base eveythring you see on previous
I'm not. X.400 was a horrendous idea. Massively centralized, and
based on the assumption that email would be run by government
organizations like the post office. The addressing mechanism was
unusable without a global directory service, and addresses were
completely non portable.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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