Re: Yet another X.400 vs SMTP question
Erik Skovgaard <eskovgaa@cue.bc.ca> Fri, 28 May 1993 17:34 UTC
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From: Erik Skovgaard <eskovgaa@cue.bc.ca>
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To: J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Yet another X.400 vs SMTP question
Cc: osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Jon, You must be kidding! No wonder, you do not think much of X.400 when all you have used is PP. Although the effort is appreciated, I must tell you that PP is not up to par with commercial implementations. The code is bulky, slow and has not passed conformance testing. I have used X.400 for many years (since 1984) and have not found any RFC-822 mailer that is as good. But I am even out of date. Some of the newver X.400 Remote UA products are very good. So let's agree that it is a matter of taste and stop this rediculous badmouthing of X.400 that some people on Internet seem to indulge in. No matter how much people try, X.400 cannot be stopped since it serves the need of many large organizations and governments - the customers that *pay* for products and services. BTW - if you are going to use the argument of the most users. Take note that IBM's PROFS is the email system used by most users (roughly half as of last year). Now, you would not suggest that we all switch to PROFS? The Novell email system is called MHS - and it has nothing to do with X.400. It is just a transfer system. User agents are written by other vendors. Any typos are to be blamed on line noise - a problem with connectionless protocols. Cheers, ....Erik.
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