Well, I suspected Eric's editorial comments were partially
tongue-in-cheek, because based on my (admittedly little) knowledge about
them, the L-Soft guys seem to be huge standards geeks.

"Ahern, Shannon" wrote:
>
> [opinion]
>
> Well-said.
>
> Shannon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Shannon [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 4:12 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Prepending of extra spaces to subject line with exchange
> 2000
>
> >
> > To my knowledge, the only product that does not deal with
> > this properly is Outlook. Since Outlook is, by definition, the Internet
> > standard, we have changed LISTSERV to stop indenting the subject line in
> 1.8e.
> >
>
> [opinion]
>
> hmmmm...that's a scary thought.  It'a analagous to saying AOL is the
> Internet standard for ISPs because they have the largest subscriber base.
> How many people on this list would put their hands up for that one?
>
> It's somewhat depressing to see pioneers like L-Soft having to bow to
> another company's 'standards' simply because said company managed to jam
> enough dubiously compliant MUAs onto desktops (over which they've already
> had their wrists slapped for blatantly using suspect methods of so-called
> 'distribution').
>
> Perhaps if enough Outlook users complained then the developers of *that*
> product would be forced to change their code to match every other MUA on the
> face of the earth.
>
> Anyhow, that's my two bob's worth.
>
> [/opinion]
>
> --
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>
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