Re: Outlook Express compatibility patch

From: Kendall Lister <kendall@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 09:37:38 +1000 (EST)

On Sat, 29 May 1999, Federico Giannici wrote:

> Is there any projected release date of the fix for the incompatibility
> of squid and OE5?
>
> This is a really annoying problem...

I hope that you're expecting the patch to come from Microsoft... It _is_
annoying that they promote non-standard operations. I will be disappointed
if Squid falls into the trap of being too scared to do anything other than
capitulate to Microsoft (or Netscape, or Redhat, or anyone else)
_especially_ when the issue is non-standard implementations. And to call
it a compatibility unfortunately implies (unfairly, but still definitely)
that the free, open source small time program Squid has errors that cause
it to mess up Outlook Express - and this is simply not true.

Okay, I feel better now... :)

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 Kendall Lister, Systems Operator for Charon I.S. - kendall@charon.net.au
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Received on Sat May 29 1999 - 17:17:44 MDT

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