Ken wrote:

> "Jon A. Cruz" wrote:
>
> > correctly, but any Microsoft reading software is broken and in direct
> > violation of the RFC's,
>
> What does RFC stand for ?
>

Well, since I understand Ken is not a programmer, I'll take it as an honest
question. (If it were coming from a programmer, especially one doing any
net programming at all, that question should have required an extremely
flame-on slam... but that's another story.)

From foldoc:
http://www.nightflight.com/cgi-bin/foldoc.cgi?query=rfc
gives
http://www.nightflight.com/cgi-bin/foldoc.cgi?Request+For+Comments


> Request For Comments
>
> <standard> (RFC) One of a series, begun in 1969, of numbered Internet
> informational documents and standards widely followed by commercial
> software and freeware in the Internet and Unix communities. Few RFCs are
> standards but all Internet standards are recorded in RFCs. Perhaps the single
> most influential RFC has been RFC 822, the Internet electronic mail format
> standard.
>
> The RFCs are unusual in that they are floated by technical experts acting on
> their own initiative and reviewed by the Internet at large, rather than
> formally promulgated through an institution such as ANSI. For this reason,
> they remain known as RFCs even once adopted as standards.
>

So, the standards for Mail, news messages, news transport, MIME, etc. are
all in RFC's. Too bad the MS programmers seem to not bother reading them
fully. (MSIE is also broken in HTTP/MIME, and in one point the spec even
has it in bold not to do what MS went ahead and did).

( if you're interested in what that one of the many is, see
http://www.geocities.com/joncruz/web_midi.htm#tell_isp )

--
"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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