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RE: [Asrg] How to defeat spam that uses encryption?

2003-03-31 14:12:21
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companies are increasingly looking for alternatives, but when you have
an existing company-wide system with a large user population and you
can't just take the system down for a week to revamp things, moving to
a new environment takes a lot of time, energy and money. Especially
since e-mail is by all measures a corporate critical function almost
everywhere now. Sometimes, the work needed to make a switch simply
overwhelms an organization's ability to do it.

 -------- I whole-heartedly agree with this statement. If we go
back to the
"wish-list"- the implementation needs to be incremental. There is no way
that I can shut off email even for an hour much less breaking
everything (MS
calls this an upgrade) all at once and hope that everyone else does too.

FYI: I agree too. Though some alternatives are coming into being. The
protocol is not broken with Outlook, it's the client. Ximian's Connector
software for Evolution allegedly will allow you to switch out clients w/o
any real kind of downtime or feature loss. The downside (if you think it's
one) is that Evolution is Linux-only. (No that that's a bad thing, just that
the transitioning is a pain ;-)

OFF-TOPIC:
What I'd like to see is relational databases  used for email storage. That
way, I can connect up anywhere, with a variety of SQL-interoperable clients
(ie. Mozilla (from any platform), Outlook (gasp), Eudora -- all could have
ODBC). Eliminate vendor lock-in a la file formats, while providing access
from anywhere...



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