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From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Mike N. wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:17:58 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>
>> why they didn't continue along the path of talking to experienced
>> users and doing the improvements that got them to where they were.
>
>    I haven't even seen Windows Mail, but I can tell you with 100% certainty
> that they don't support a standard protocol like APOP because this is
> somehow seen as a competing protocol.
>
>    Sort of like the spanking new FrontPage replacement, Expressions Web
> product barely supporting FTP as an upload protocol, much less FTP over
> TLS.   So, how long has FTP been out there; why not support it?

also given std oo abstractions & the availability of std ftp libs....


adam

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