On Wednesday 30 October 2002 13:44, Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:32:56PM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
No, it's not. Not a bit. One of the things my organization does is manage the email systems for our corporation (not a small one). and we set policy on email clients quite simply: "here are the ones we support. If you use something else, we wish you luck. If it doesn't work right, we hope you can fix it".
I have no recollection of any mailing list ever sending me a list of supported MUAs when I subscribed.
IIRC, he wasn't speaking in the context of mailing lists. He was speaking in the context of a corporate helpdesk that supports employee or contract customer users. The fact that it's impractical to make the same sort of proclaimations in a public mailing list setting is why historically an MLM would attempt to cater to the LCD. If I understand the discussion that has gone on here, the thinking is that it's time to push the issue a little bit in order to raise the bar. I agree with that line of thinking, but I don't necessarily agree with all the ways in which it was implemented. However, what seems at first glance to be a change for the worse sometimes turns out in the long term to be a change for the better, so I'm keeping an open mind and respecting the judgement of those wiser in such matters than myself.
Kyle
Since the general civilizations of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. -James Madison