[OT: FW: About your using mailer]

Fri Mar 28 18:07:25 UTC 2003

I got one, and my mailer is compliant.

Maybe he's confirming e-mail addresses for spam?

On 3/28/2003 at 13:01:00 -0500, Joshua Smith said:
> 
> i got one too - i was going to ask if anyone else minded that my
> mua was fully rfc 2822 compliant (before telling usa.net that they
> have to rewrite their webmail app)...
> 
> i like how the examples cited are crap-html/mime oriented (msn, 
> exchange, and aol?)
> 
> Mike Damm <MikeD at irwinresearch.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Is anyone else getting this junk regarding the list? And can we put a stop
> > to it?
> > 
> > Granted in a perfect world everyone runs software throughout the entire
> > enterprise that is on the bleeding edge of the latest proposed standards,
> > but some of us only have so big of a budget.
> > 
> > ---
> > Michael Damm, MIS Department, Irwin Research & Development
> > V: 509.457.5080 x298 F: 509.577.0301 E: miked at irwinresearch.com
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Miyoko Shioda [mailto:wjxv4y at k3.dion.ne.jp] 
> > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 9:30 AM
> > To: Mike Damm
> > Subject: Re: About your using mailer
> > 
> > 
> > dear Mike Damm,
> > 
> > Sorry, I am talking about NANOG mailing list.
> > Please please change your MUA in mainling list...
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 09:28:17 -0800
> > Mike Damm <MikeD at irwinresearch.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > What mailing list are you talking about?
> > > 
> > > ---
> > > Michael Damm, MIS Department, Irwin Research & Development
> > > V: 509.457.5080 x298 F: 509.577.0301 E: miked at irwinresearch.com
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Miyoko Shioda [mailto:wjxv4y at k3.dion.ne.jp] 
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 5:16 PM
> > > To: MikeD at irwinresearch.com
> > > Subject: About your using mailer
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > I read your messages in mailing list.
> > > 
> > > Your using mailer(MUA) does not seems to support In-Reply-To nor
> > References
> > > field. These field is defined in RFC-2822.
> > > If these field does not be outputted when you reply, tree construction
> > > will be break every time you post the messages to mailing list.
> > > It is inconvenient for the others.
> > > 
> > > Please please change your mailer for the public good,
> > > at least when you post to mailing list.
> > > 
> > > Today almost mailers support these field(at least In-Reply-To)
> > > except for the following mailers.
> > > 
> > > MSN hotmail
> > > Exchange Server <= 2000 (Exchange Server 2003 will support In-Reply-To.)
> > > Lotus Notes < 6.0
> > > MIME-Tools
> > > AOL mailer
> > > dtmail
> > > Novell GroupWise
> > > foxmail
> > > 
> > > regards,
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Miyoko Shioda
> > > wjxv4y at k3.dion.ne.jp
> > > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Miyoko Shioda <wjxv4y at k3.dion.ne.jp>
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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