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From: jrmacmillan@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John R. MacMillan)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.std.misc,comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Standardizing Email?
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Date: 17 Aug 88 14:29:55 GMT
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Reply-To: jrmacmillan@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John R. MacMillan)
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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.
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