In a message to andrew clarke 
Paul Edwards  wrote:

PE> Actually, I think you've misunderstood Rod there.

Probably.  He's very difficult to understand.

PE> I happen to agree with his sentiments.  "too bad for the
PE> user" is a crime against humanity.

Funnily enough, I too agree with this.

PE> You should endeavour to develop robust protocols.  When a
PE> hole in a protocol is pointed out, you should see if
PE> there is a way of plugging it, assuming it is too late to
PE> abandon the protocol in the first place.

Fine.  In the process of doing so you should not try to verbally strangle
existing protocols in _abusive_ manner, however.


PE> I have identified the hole, and have suggested SOT/EOT as a method
PE> of plugging it.

Is this "hole", enough of a problem to warrant such a fix in the
first place?


PE> And Rod hasn't been saying that he wants to write a new
PE> protocol, he's been saying all along that if you're going
PE> to do that, you should justify why you can't use X.400,

Funny.  If that's the case, why are you telling me?

(Are Paul Edwards and Rod Speed the same person? :-))

Why don't you use X.400?


PE> since someone has already spent a lot of effort doing
PE> just that.

Who?


PE> Which is something I also agree with, why do we need
PE> 20 million different Type-3 proposals when X.400 is available?

Available?  Where?  In what form?  What is X.400?  Where is the FSC document?

These are the reasons, Paul.  No-one knows what this "X.400" is. 
Not even me.

PE> I still reckon what we need is for someone to create a
PE> Type-3 proposal based on a subset of X.400 that isn't
PE> too difficult to implement.

Perhaps you could try and spread the word about the advantages and
disadvantages of X.400.


PE> BTW, when can I hope to see SOT/EOT being generated from
PE> your system?  :-)

This message has a SOT/EOT, for your pure enjoyment and enlightenment.
Future messages won't have SOT/EOT, not until I find an offline reader that
supports it.

PE> Actually, if Rod wasn't such a stick-in-the-mud SOT/EOT would
PE> rapidly take off, because he would be generating them with PQWK!

Well, there you go.  Follow the leader - what a horrid thought.  What about
the rest of the world?

Anyone for dictatorship?

  :-)


ZeeYa...
Andrew.
@EOT:

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