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From: Stef@ICS.UCI.EDU (Einar Stefferud)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: Re: Is X.400 good for international mail?
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Date: 11 Jan 91 20:31:50 GMT
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In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 09 Jan 91 22:23:23 -0500.
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I really don't think that all those companies are as ignorant as you
make them out to be.  So, lets try an experiemnt with LOTUS by sending
them some mail to ask the primary question about when LOTUS will offer
an OID for the carriage of LOTUS product objets in X.400.

What I will do is forward this discussion thread to him to see what he
thinks of it all.

Remember that X.400(84) does not allow the use of arbitrary OIDs as
Body Part Identifiers in P2.  This is new in X.400(88).  X.400(84)
only allows the use of specified integer type identifiers for body
parts, and all of them have been assigned, aadn no new ones are being
assigned for X.400(84).  So, I am not sure why LOTUS should be so all
fired interested in rushing to enbale you to use their OIDs in
non-existant X.400(88) systems.  Remember that X.400 is not backward
compatible because of the way CCITT does things.

Cheers...\Stef