On Nov 6, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 November 2007 11:57, Chris Menzel wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:03:20AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Surely as software professionals we can agree that standards are
>>> generally a good thing and that this standard is no exception to
>>> that rule. Shouldn't we thus conclude that using non-conformant
>>> software is to be strongly discouraged?
>>
>> Sounds right to me. Is there a list of conformant/nonconformant
>> clients somewhere, or a simple way to tell one from the other? I
>> mostly use mutt, which I would bet big money is comformant, and OS
>> X's Mail.app, which I'd *suspect* is conformant, but I just don't
>> know.
>
> Well, I've been avoiding name-dropping, but Outlook and Outlook
> Express
> are the culprits here. (01)
Well, I for one am *shocked*, *shocked*, I say!. Microsoft not
following international standards? Unbelievable. Scandalous. :-) (02)
> Their transgressions go beyond threading, however, but I won't get
> into that, 'cause it probably constitutes matters of taste. (03)
Yes, good vs bad. >8^) (Sorry, unrepentant Unix/Linux/Mac fan boy
here!) (04)
> I don't know for a fact, but I'm sure Mutt is conformant. It's
> actually not that hard to do, but for some reason Microsoft has
> remained intransigent with Outlook / Outlook Express. (05)
I've poked around a bit and it appears Mail.app is indeed conformant
as well, and has been for at least several years. (06)
> I've only used KMail for the past several years, and it's compliant.
>
>>> Definitely a pet peeve of mine...
>>
>> No kidding? :-)
>
> Can you tell? (07)
Nah, just a wild guess. (08)
-chris (09)
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