Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: USENIX Board Studies UUCP Message-ID: <7073@ficc.uu.net> Date: 21 Nov 89 18:24:01 GMT References: <287@usenix.UUCP> <1624@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1989Nov16.182104.23746@utzoo.uucp> <49017@looking.on.ca> <1416@cs.rit.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 16 In article <1416@cs.rit.edu> mjl@prague.UUCP (Michael Lutz) writes: > In article <49017@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: > >You mean like the group III FAX standard? ... > >You're right, it'll never catch on, unless they give it away. :-) > I think Brad's ignoring the fact of an existing, usable, if admittedly > non-optimal alternative. Not to mention that FAX itself is an existing, usable, if admittedly non- optimal alternative to email for a large percentage of cases. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva . 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "I agree 0bNNNNN would have been nice, however, and I sure wish X3J11 had taken time off from rabbinical hairsplitting to add it." -- Tom Neff