[Leica] Re: For Brian Reid (OT)

[Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>]

This is exactly why I use Eudora Pro, even at Agilent where Outlook is the
norm and I had to nudge and fool the system into letting me use Eudora. But
with programs like Eudora, you can manipulate your mail any way you wish
without Big Brother attempting to do it for you.

Jim


At 12:45 PM 11/25/00 -0800, Brian Reid wrote:
>Every message ever delivered to every subscriber of the Leica-users
>list has had in it the mailbox of the person who sent it.
>
>If you use Microsoft software to read your mail, though, it works
>hard to conceal this information from you. Instead of telling you who
>sent the message, it tells you who delivered the message, and then says
>"on behalf of" but doesn't give the email address.
>
>This is entirely a failing of Microsoft mail software. This behavior
>(cloaking the identity of the message sender) is specifically and
>directly against the published standards for Internet mail, and it is
>also silly. Whenever possible, I urge people to graduate from Microsoft
>mail software to something better. 
>
>Microsoft's motive is always the same: to force the world to use
>Microsoft products everywhere. What they are doing here is trying to
>create social pressure on people who run mail servers (like the
>Leica-Users list) to use Microsoft software in the mail server. When a
>Microsoft mail-reading program is processing a mail message that was
>delivered by a Microsoft mail server, it does the right thing.  In
>other cases (such as the mail software that I use) it does this awful
>thing.
>
>Brian Reid
>