SM wrote:
The landscape has changed since then. I doubt you would be able to do
the above in today's mail environment.
Well, I am from the school of thought that automation typically evolves
from the user or system manual or interactive needs to do tedious or
redundant things - well automated. Today's mail environment has not
fundamentally changed in atleast 20-25 years. The last industry revamp
was what? Late 80's and that was mostly in changing formats - same basic
framework and ideas, just a new standard everyone can use. In fact, I
will suggest that the pendulum is once again shifting towards
centralization which is once again fueling a market for automated
frontend tools for users.
Lets just say there are advantages for some if you keep thinking that way. :-)
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Hector Santos, CTO
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