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RE: Private Communication Technology (PCT) secure channel p

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (thomasre)
Tue Oct 3 20:15:20 1995

To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: 3 Oct 95 11:06:05 -0700
From: thomasre <thomasre@microsoft.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

Peter,

Yes, we will be at the W3C meeting.

Ad hominem attacks are boring, I won't respond to your next one:

Why is your message any incentive to me to more fully participate in
this   wg process?  Why did you respond to the form of my message
instead of the   content?  You added nothing to the evolution of
security on the Net.

Note, I HAVE NO WAY TO CONTROL THE ATTACHMENTS.  i send my mail though
  our corporate mail system, not MSN, and the @#$% mail app that I use
  insists on adding the formatting info, so I apologize.  And since
when   did UUEncode's become non-standard on the Net?

 -Thomas Reardon
Microsoft Corp


 ----------
From: 	"Peter Trei"[SMTP:owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu]
Sent: 	Monday, October 02, 1995 10:11 AM
To: 	thomasre@microsoft.com; www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Subject: 	      Re: FW: Private Communication Technology (PCT) secure 
 channel p

thomasre <thomasre@microsoft.com> writes
> To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> Date: 30 Sep 95 16:37:02 -0700
> From: thomasre <thomasre@microsoft.com>
> X-Exchange-Message-Id: C=US;A=  
;P=MICROSOFT;l=RED-10-MSG950930163702LIX006000
> Subject: FW: Private Communication Technology (PCT) secure channel   protocol
> Sender: owner-www-security@ns2.Rutgers.EDU
> Precedence: bulk
> Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.Rutgers.EDU
>
> This is a repost, it was sent to the wrong alias initially.  Note, you
>   can safely ignore the attachment that comes with this mesage, it is
>  formatting info only.

[32 lines of useful information deleted]

I hope that PCT gets some kind of presentation at the W3C Security  
Working Group meeting
next week.

 > #<begin uuencode>
> begin 666 WINMAIL.DAT
> M>)\^(C$"`0B`!P`8````25!-+DUI8W)O<V]F="!-86EL+DYO=&4`,0@!`Y`&

[36 lines of uuencoded garbage deleted]

> end
> #<end uuencode>

This is really unacceptable. What's worse, it seems to confirm the widely
held view that Microsoft is an arrogant, amoral giant, with the manners   of a
pig.

1. The binary attachment more than doubles the length of the message. I
suspect that it repeats the entire text in some proprietary M$ format.
I   don't
need my (standard, readable-ascii-only) mailbox filled with this   unreadable
crap. I, and most of the Internet, do not use Microsoft Mail, and have no
intention of doing so.

2. The binary attachment does not even follow the standard MIME formats
for binary attachments - evidentially M$ feels no need to follow   established
norms of internet behaviour.

I'm worried - will every post and letter sent from MSN be doubled in size   by
this idiotic practice?

It appears that the 70's platitude will have to updated:

"Being Microsoft means never have to say you're sorry."








Peter Trei
Senior Software Engineer
Purveyor Development Team
Process Software Corporation
http://www.process.com
trei@process.com




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