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From: dennis@rlgvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.dcom.lans,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: X.400 Mail Package
Message-ID: <493@rlgvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Jun-87 20:23:36 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  8 20:23:36 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jun-87 02:06:45 EDT
References: <289@rabbit1.UUCP> <220@idacrd.UUCP>
Organization: Computer Consoles Inc, Reston VA
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Summary: Standards For Writing Standards

In article <220@idacrd.UUCP>, mac@idacrd.UUCP (Bob McGwier) writes:
> 	As with all things designed by committee this bohemoth was
> 1.5 Megawords and the supporter of X.400 that was being interviewed
> called it "the ADA of mailing systems".
> 
> Bob

Recently I was tasked to write-up an internal memo that compared
X.400 to our electronic mail system that we sell as part of our
OA package (OfficePower).  Well, the X.400 series (8 of 'em) standards
are *very* difficult to read casually.  When are those standards
writers going to start writing documentation that is isn't so abstract,
terse, and hard to understand?

Maybe we need a standard for writing standards? :-)

-dennis bednar

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