On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 06:47:56PM -0700, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote
Deploying *any* enhancement to a global, installed base takes many
years. No doubt you meant something special, but your point
escapes me.
Au contraire, the Web was deployed on a worldwide basis less than a
year after the public launch.
"The Web" was most certainly *NOT* an "enhancement to a global,
installed base". It's closest "relative" was gopher. Sure, browsers
had to be able to handle "gopher://"; for the transition, but there was
no need to be backwards compatable, i.e. no need for web sites to be
readable by gopher. And there was a helluva lot less installed base to
begin with.
An email equivalent would be "Protocol X", which doesn't give a flying
f___ whether or not current SMTP users can interoperate with it. The
only "standards body" with a chance at this is Microsoft, and I'd rather
that they didn't.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes(_at_)waltdnes(_dot_)org>
Email users are divided into two classes;
1) Those who have effective spam-blocking
2) Those who wish they did
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