Michele and all, I am fairly sure that Bret has heard of Google. An yes, they are not RFC compliant i.e. Gmail and Googlemail. Of course they don't seem to really care that they are not. But more and more they are finding it difficult to find loyal customers for their Email product line, not to mention their search engine. Maybe someday Vint Cerf will have a "Religious" experiance, and "Evangelize" to the rest of Google's managment, of which he is a part of, and they will become good Internet citizens. However I remain amazed that Bret, a good fellow, seems to be rather uninformed or lacking what is relitively common knowledge... Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote:
On 7 Jul 2008, at 19:25, Bret Fausett wrote:
I have a hard time believing that Apple or Yahoo or any other major customer-facing business would roll out a branded TLD with an email service that wasn't compliant with major RFCs.
You've heard of Google, haven't you? :)
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