Hello Peter --
Well, I think that your words constituted a very personal attack, post
hoc disclaimers not withstanding. You should read your own mail for
its content, or lack there-of... (Your reply is pretty much empty.)
If you want to make non personal attacks on issues, I suggest that you
not use personal names for the things that you attack.
As for living by our words, I have had the last laugh more often than
not, which is generally applauded by my clients who often get a
significant strategic jump on their competitors.
Further, there is nothing ambiguous or hard to understand about what I
am quoted as saying. It is a simple exposition of a bit of reality.
That is is not conventional wisdom in some people's minds is clear, but
that does not make it wrong. That only makes it unconventional.
The statement points out that two competing technologies are growing
at vastly different rates. It leaves open the question of what this
fact implies. However, most people easily understand how it means
that the slower one is most unlikely to overtake the faster one,
pending some dramatic change in what either or both are doing. Like
the Hare taking a nap... And they sometimes do, but the Internet
Never Sleeps! (Fresh new observation there!) You may quote me.
Would it help for me to use an analogy? Like "X.400 is like a flea
crawling up an elephant's leg with intention of rape"? OOPS!
WARNING: Politically incorrect thought in the line above!
Next questions: Is PEM doing any better? If not, why not?
Surely not just because Stef Said Something!
My saying something never makes anything become true.
But, Gee, I sure wish it would;-)...
As for bias, I suppose one could say that accepting reality is a
biased act, but I have difficulty understanding how rejecting reality
is unbiased, so I have to challenge your suggestion that your writings
have meaningful content while mine do not.
I am sorry to hear that understanding and accepting reality is a
problem for you. Or that it seems to offend you. Being offended by
reality must be a terrible thing. There is so much of it;-)...
Or, perhaps it is just part of what happens when one is in denial.
Hava Merry Merry! And a Great New Year! Cheers...\Stef
From Peter Williams's message Wed, 14 Dec 1994 18:32:21 -0800:
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} >From: Einar Stefferud <Stef(_at_)nma(_dot_)com>
} >Subject: Re: Re[2]: Is PGP really more widespread than PEM?
} >Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 15:26:40 -0800
}
} >I will plead guilty to having stated that I find the X.400 market to
} >be growing robustly in a linear pattern, but also note that the
} >Internet EMail market is growing exponentially. I generally leave it
} >to my audience to decide what this might mean.
}
}Einar, there is nothing personal in the attack. You were just an
}example based on statements you volunteered to the public. we all here
}live by the word, and will no doubt die by it when we fail to measure
}up to the speed of progress in the expanding service marketplace.
}
}My fair point and example is, still, such a statement has little
}meaning. The phrasing has obvious bias though. (Its as if you are trying
}to say something passively.)
}
}Perhaps the markets which each are growing in wholly different areas
}with completely different margins and represent solution or infrastructure
}versus commodity marketting.
}
}Same with PEM and PGP, MSP and PEM...
}
}A standards group encourages all modes of market expansion. Thats
}what standards are for.