[vorbis] offtopic mailer discussion

[Tom Felker]

On Tuesday 05 August 2003 6:20 pm, noprivacy at earthlink.net wrote:
> > > So basically, it is a *known* problem with OE (not the first time a bug
>
> has
>
> > > been found in MS code!) **BUT** some mailer clients ignore the known
>
> problem

Nice quoting.  I suppose I'm being arrogant by not taking the time to fix it.

> So, you are saying that it is *okay* for an author to deliberately write a
> program that he *KNOWS* will generate mail that 95%+ of the world can *NOT*
> read?

So, you're saying that it's OK for the author who writes the software that 
most of "the world" uses not to test it before releasing it?  Is it OK for 
him not to fix known issues?

> Standards are great.  But only as long as *everybody* follows them and does
> so without any bugs.

And if somebody's implementation introduces bugs, then _they_ need to fix 
them, not everyone else.  Otherwise, there's no point to having a standard.

> When 95%+ of the world uses a mail client that can't properly handle some
> aspect of some standard (regardless of why), then only an arrogant fool
> will write a program that will generate data (email etc.) that will
> deliberately *not* work with it.

When 95%+ of the world uses a Windows Media Player, which can't properly 
handle the Vorbis format (regardless of why), than only an arrogant fool will 
write a program that will generate data (Ogg files, etc.) that will 
deliberately *not* work with it.  Sure.

> that generates data that is *deliberately* incompatable with it, is not

Microsoft has much more to gain from an incompatibility with slrn than slrn 
does, and it's Microsoft's bug, and they refuse to fix it.  If anyone 
deliberately caused this, it's Microsoft.


-- 
Tom Felker

Everything else about computers has become cheaper and faster.  Why
not software?

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