Borking Outlook Express

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday January 28, 2002 @07:59AM from the swedish-is-funny-on-the-face-of-things dept.

Johannes writes: "Swedish Gnuheter has a story on Nick Moffitt arranging with his X-headers in way that makes it impossible to read his email with Microsoft WebTV or Outlook Express. Moffitt states: 'The folks using Outlook Express have locked themselves into a limited subset of the information that can flow over the Internet, and are blaming me personally for not limiting my transmissions to that outlook-centric subset.' See also original email (in English). Immoral? Or just right?" Looks like Moffit's "Who, me?" attitude is tongue in cheek, but the creative header changes here are hilarious.

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Re:Stupid... by AJWM · 2002-01-28 08:31 · Score: 3, Troll

What was our reaction to MS disabling access to the MSN sites?

I don't know about yours, bucko, but I couldn't give a damn. If MSN has anything interesting to say (unlikely), odds are that somebody else will be saying it.

And this is different exactly how?

Microsoft's move was part of an effort to coerce lock-in to a non-standards-compliant protocol. This locks out non-standards-compliant clients. Totally opposite.

This is immature and childish.

Not at all. It makes the point very clearly. If more people did it, more users would realize just how broken MS software is.

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