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Old 08-25-2008, 04:16 PM
Default Re: Phase V: it's not just the UI, U know.

"Richard B. Gilbert" writes:

> Somehow, I can't get excited about a product that solves problems I
> didn't have when it was introduced, and which, ten or so years later, I
> still don't have. SMTP and POP may be "obsolete" but they have been
> delivering mail for the last 25 years or so and may be good for another
> ten or twenty years. DECnet Phase IV may be obsolete but it does the
> job I need done!


SMTP is a bit over 25 years old, POP just over 20.

Just keeping things straight.

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