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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 February 2003 12:36 am, Nick Kew wrote: > Aaargh! I wonder how long it'll be before someone's XMLRPC software > starts to accept executable content, paving the way for a whole new > can of worms. not soap, xml-rpc, or any other web service. just plain posting of XML over HTTP. > > WebDAV could also easily replace IMAP and POP3. > > Are you volunteering to write a fetchmail-replacement? maybe one day ;) Other things such as storing mail in XML format are first, imho. All the mail addons like MIME and PGP have just been hacked on. Somethign new needs to come about, first. though i'm a bit sceptical of the whole internet industry and it's incapabilities of looking forward, rather than concentrate *only* supporting the past right now; i can but dream, and hopefuly make a difference. someone needs to wake up all the software and systems engineers workign for ISP's, they seem to have fallen sleep about 4 years ago, and not woken up since. ~ Theo - -- Theo Zourzouvillys <theo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <http://theo.me.uk/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RGgf448CrwpTn6YRAgJrAJ9585cethZ7DcUp7F6DOy+bEgvp9QCg9mZC xxt3q0njjWMM3tkqHfDoNCA= =7hj2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.