Playing real player files

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 10 May 2007, Donn wrote:
>> Read the subject of the messsage.  The subject is "playing real player
>> files." I understand that this may be showing up incorrectly in
>> thunderbird, but that's hardly the fault of those posting, is it?  Please
>> post a bug report if it is necessary, but this is most definitely not a
>> thread on xsession-errors. It is a thread on real player files.
>
>I dunno what is what, but here's a screenshot of my kmail. I hope it comes
>through.
>
>/d

A graphic which, just like in my copy of kmail, clearly shows that it is a 
child of the "xsession errors" thread.  This IS how its supposed to be 
according to the RFC's I read on this subject many moons ago now.

It is NOT a bug, except that IE doesn't know any different, M$ apparently 
never having read the RFC's that apply.  This is not un-intentional on the 
part of M$, I think they read them very carefully to see just how much 
difficulty they could put into the competitions camp.  Its just another way 
of trying to achieve a vendor lock in, by purposely doing it at odds with the 
working specifications that try to govern network email.  The 800 pound 
gorilla effect if you will.

So the original admonition to not hijack the thread is both reasonable, and 
the proper response to trying to maintain some semblance of order to ones 
email corpus, which here is about 150k messages.

Frankly, folks who come marching in here declaring that this or that 
linux/unix/macos/bsd/amiga/flavor of the week os's email agent has a bug 
because it doesn't work exactly like M$IE, need to be reminded of who wrote 
the software they are using for an email agent.  They are convicted 
monopolists among other things, and will buy their way out of ever having a 
court rule on any other of the numerous lawsuits with their unlimited 
monetary assets.  The recent Iowa case being a prime example.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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