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Re: [LUG] Re: ISPs, SMTP and Mail, and the future



On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Adrian Midgley wrote:

> > > X.400
> >
> > Was never a serious option.  At least not amongst techies such
> > as those of us in this discussion.
> 
> I know it ceased to be an excusable choice in 1994 and was 
> probably the wrong choice by 1993, but nevertheless the 
> lumbering machinery of the NHS decided that this was the way to 
> go.

That's bureaucratic organisations and decisions made by pointy-hairs
in suits for you.

> Some of us went on Newsnight to say that.

Some of us never get listened to at that kind of level, not even in
our own fields of expertise, nor even if we'd been in the UK at the
time:-(

-- 
Nick Kew



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