Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:38:44 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: FreeBSD Advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the desktop (was: TheRegister article on Hotmail) Message-ID: <3DE17114.D6B9F91D@mindspring.com> References: <3DDF7691.22726.4FCB4F2@localhost> <02dc01c29338$320168c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DE00E4A.1B6A0D8A@mindspring.com> <031001c29356$4b383300$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DE06EEF.F321ECDA@mindspring.com> <037c01c293b0$8dabaa00$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DE0C075.B77B1A0D@mindspring.com> <03a001c293b5$19807d90$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Terry writes: > > 1995/1996. They wrote the Microsoft Mail client > > which was renamed "Outlook", on contract. > > A lot of clients were renamed Outlook. There was one for Windows 95, one > for Exchange Server, and one for Office. Which one did they write? I don't > recall ever hearing their name. Since you claim you are not a Microsoft employee, why is your ignorance of the facts surrounding the implementation details of a Microsoft product, which is only released in binary form, worth anything at all? > Either they did not write the clients you claim, or they wrote clients that > I did not support (such as the Office or Windows 95 clients). As far as I > know, the MXS client, like all of MXS (almost) was written in Redmond. How do you know this? > > ... when you incorrectly stated that Outlook and > > Outlook Express do not share code. > > Which code do they share? Minimally, the RFC822 encoder, the MIME encoder, the SMTP client code, and the address book list and list insertion code. Since you "aren't employed by Microsoft", the only thing you can personally know about the mail clients is their UI, and not the implementation details, right? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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