[SpamCop-List] Re: patent-fr

[Philippe Verdy (n.o-s.p.a.m+abuse)]

"Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid> a écrit dans le message de news: dntkfb$df6$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> Mike Easter wrote:
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>> It is not appropriate that you post in a way that requires 'normal'
>> non-QuoteFixed OE users to not be able to cite your posts correctly.
> 
> Here is a 'monster' thread about this same subject:
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> http://news.spamcop.net/pipermail/spamcop-list/2003-June/045909.html
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> [SpamCop-List] Philippe Verdy's Posts
> Sun Jun 8 01:55:33 EDT 2003 

Plonk me if you wish, but I won't change back this, due to antiquity mail/news readers. Those that persist in using them are supporting the immobility that caused newgroups to not evolve andbecome now unusable (and died for almost all users).

The email system is now nearly reaching the point of non-usability due to lack of evolution to make it moresecure and more usable as well. Compare that to the evolution of the web, and don't be surprised that it nowreally favors all users (and those that complain now are those that don't like HTML and the legacy proprietary software and support XHTML as amuch better standard supported in open-source programs).

The problem of newsgroups (and now emails as well) is the lack of support for standards. MIME has been standardized since more than 15 years; an eternity face to the OSes andsoftwares we all use today even when using email and posting to newsgroups.

That lack of standardization really something that I cannot understand and I really can't understand the resistance of users to not adopt newer better standards and live only with legacy intiquities, refusing all evolutions, when spammers have strongly made extensive use and abuse of them to increase the efficiency of their business.

Things will evolve in softwares as long as users really start to accept these evolutions.