[3022] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Mailing lists identification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hallam@vesuvius.ai.mit.edu)
Sat Sep 21 14:32:31 1996
From: hallam@vesuvius.ai.mit.edu
To: Chris Garrigues <cwg@DeepEddy.Com>
Cc: Joris van Boven <Joris.van.Boven@best.ms.philips.com>,
www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu, cwg@deepeddy.DeepEddy.Com,
hallam@vesuvius.ai.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Sep 96 11:16:26 CDT."
<199609201616.LAA27369@deepeddy.DeepEddy.Com>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 96 12:43:07 -0400
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
"Using a web browser to read mail is like using a screwdriver as a chisel"
NO! The Web was designed to be an all encompassing system. Binding mail into
the Web was meant to mean that you could create web pages that allowed
access to your mail via URIs
The original 1.0 version of netscape was much closer to the idea of
intergration we originally had. The current idea of a separate environment
is in my view deeply inferior. Any inadequacies of html as an api should have
been fixed rather than throwing in a cheesy copy of eudora.
Phill
