Xref: utzoo comp.misc:3149 comp.std.misc:46 comp.mail.misc:1184 comp.mail.uucp:1661 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!oddjob!gargoyle!att!chinet!mcdchg!clyde!watmath!watdragon!jrmacmillan From: jrmacmillan@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John R. MacMillan) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.std.misc,comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Standardizing Email? Message-ID: <8281@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 17 Aug 88 14:29:55 GMT References: <788@vsi.UUCP> <1380@cloud9.UUCP> <3437@phri.UUCP> <20063@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <64445@sun.uucp> Reply-To: jrmacmillan@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John R. MacMillan) Organization: Anarchists' Society Lines: 24 In article <64445@sun.uucp> guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes: |I think the problem here is that Mr. MacMillan completely misunderstood the |comment from Andy Freeman: | ||Does anyone how Europe's bold leap into the 60s a couple of summers ||ago came out? (ISO was advertising an experimental mail system ||between dissimilar hosts, probably based on an X.400 predecessor. We ||stupid Americans had been doing that for years.) So I did. I thought he meant "they're doing it the _same way_ we did it years ago", and felt that this was not too surprising. I didn't know that the ISO had come up with something different (which seems incredibly silly until you remember that we're talking about a committee :-) |Mr. Freeman's comment wasn't that "we stupid Americans" had somehow |"steam-rollered" Europe into picking up something that we "did differently". I think I've been misunderstood too; I didn't mean that the US actively coerces the rest of the world, merely that it is such a large user/ producer/developer/etc that the rest of the world had better go along or they'll lose out. -- John R. MacMillan jrmacmillan@dragon.waterloo.edu If the universe fits, wear it. ...!watmath!dragon!jrmacmillan