that and a small perl script are how i get all the internet drafts and
rfcs as they are published.
Do you seriously expect a marketing VP to write perl?
that and a small perl script are how i get all the internet drafts and
rfcs as they are published.Do you seriously expect a marketing VP to write perl?
no. i expect someone to tell the marketing vp that emailing large
documents is "wrong" and that someone will fedex them some floppies.
or a zip disk. or a jaz disk. or a dlt tape containing a bzip2'ed
copy of a hpodc cpio archive. in halfword swapped format. 
but not email.
my opinion.
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 10:56:15 -0700
From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>Do you seriously expect a marketing VP to write perl?
I think that his point was content transfer methods, not perl scripts.
Eddy
Roeland Meyer wrote:
> that and a small perl script are how i get all the internet drafts and
> rfcs as they are published.Do you seriously expect a marketing VP to write perl?
"The marketoids won't cooperate" has never, ever been a valid argument
for anything. These people are the same people who yelled at me because
I wouldn't make a particular web site compatible with IE 2.0 a couple
years
ago, even though IE 2.0 and 3.0 are very badly broken in some ways (yes,
the
wonderful person who argued with me on this was a particularly clueless
marketoid, but there are a lot of them out there that aren't any
better).
And I sure wouldn't expect the marketoids to be able to write perl,
but something like what Mr. Brown describes would be trivial for someone
who actually programs in perl, and it could be deployed on a corporate
mail
server as a backend filter of some sort.
How about if it absolutely, positively has to be there within the hour?
The nifty thing about email is that it has cost Fedex and the other
shipping companies an untold amount of business. It has contributed
to the increase in productivity Greenspan likes to mention. Limiting
such service is not a good idea IMHO.
--Mitch
NetSide
Mitch Halmu wrote:
How about if it absolutely, positively has to be there within the hour?
Guess what: You can't absolutely, positively guarantee an e-mail will
be delivered in an hour.