Re: empty quoted strings and other oddities
"Gary Feldman" <gaf@ziplink.net> Fri, 04 October 2002 11:48 UTC
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Subject: Re: empty quoted strings and other oddities
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 07:51:24 -0400
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I think Bruce has correctly pointed out that there is an existing mechanism whose precise purpose in life is to accomodate such obsolescence changes. Let me also add that the idea of a huge impact on thousands or millions of users because of a minor change is overblown. People don't wake up one morning and discover there's a new RFC or an RFC in a new state, delete their existing copies of Outlook or Eudora or sendmail or whatever, and sit around without email for weeks or months waiting for the world to catch up. What happens is that the folks at Qualcomm and Microsoft and the open source community and whereever else put out new releases. In some cases, they use it as a selling point to make more money. In other cases, such as the open source community, they use it to help prove their faithfulness and quality. They do so without breaking existing stuff catastrophically, just as existing web servers still support HTTP 1.0 in spite of incompatibilities with HTTP 1.1. Eventually things get to be so obsolete that people are forced to upgrade, e.g. version 1 of Netscape or IE. Or they continue to work with rough edges, e.g. the folks still using version 4. But the world doesn't end and email won't break down. Gary
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- Re: empty quoted strings and other oddities Gary Feldman
- Re: empty quoted strings and other oddities Jacob Palme
- Re: empty quoted strings and other oddities Bruce Lilly
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- Re: empty quoted strings and other oddities Gary Feldman
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