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From: mallsop@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Mark Allsop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: standard mail file format
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Date: 18 Dec 90 23:28:12 GMT
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In article <912@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> dbielik@sunb.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Danny Bielik) writes:
>In article <905@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> mallsop@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Mark Allsop) writes:
>>
>>It seems there are a multitude of mail file formats floating around the world.
>>Might I make a humble suggestion:- why not make a standard mail file format?
>
>Mark, I think that you will find that the great majority of people who use and
>install Novell networks are NOT on internet.  From my own experience, they
>are the usual batch of computer salesmen/women who have their head stuck
>firmly in the backside of MS-DOS.

Danny, the point is not whether people are on the internet or not.  If you are
using one mail system in your organisation and another better one comes along,
you can't change smothly unless you have the same mail file format.
Also, if you have two networks using different mail systems, they can't mail
to each other easily unless the same mail file format and naming convention 
is used.

An advantage of using the internet mail file format is people can then more 
easily connect Novell networks to the internet.

There are very good reasons for using the same format even without considering
the internet.  I just hope people writing the mail software will work towards
a standard.

Cheers & Merry Christmas,
+Mark.

 Mark Allsop                                              Computer Scientist 
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 Mark Allsop                                              Computer Scientist 
 email: mallsop@suna.mqcc.mq.oz.au                The Statistical Laboratory 
 Phone: At MacUni: (61 2) 805-8592  / \      Macquarie University, Australia 
 Fax  :          : (61 2) 805-7433   |   This one goes up to 11.....