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To: EPS who wrote (28247)	9/25/1999 12:08:00 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Respond to of 42771

Hello Victor, > I'd like to repost this for further discussion What kind of discussion? What are you looking for related to this? > Here's what I mean. First remember that AOL is the one being > attacked here, and that AOL CTO Marc Andreessen has both a good > technical mind and a hot temper. And now Andreessenis gone ... > If MSN Messenger ruins AOL's $180+ million investment in Mirabilis, > why shouldn't AOL nuke Microsoft's $400 million investment in > Hotmail? Because ... this is the stupid way to try and solve things ... defensive measures which are tactics ... not strategy ... And ... > MSN Messenger requires users to have a Hotmail account. AOL could > easily create a service I'll call AOL AnyMail, which would be > rather like the old Claris eMailer -- a client for multiple e-mail > systems. I love this ... "AOL could easily create ..." ... oh yeah ... it's easy for an armchair quarterback to throw out these comments ... but harder to implement ... > AOL AnyMail could be used to consolidate in one place all those > free e-mail accounts we have all picked up over the last couple > years. Through AOL AnyMail you could read your Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, > Excite Mail, Whatever Mail, even your corporate e-mail. And > though AOL AnyMail's ability to remember which mail came from which > service, you could answer back through those services. The problem is that parsing and trying to pull in web based mail via proxies is much more difficult than he explains. If the web site is changed often, it breaks the proxy's ability to properly parse the pages and get the mail ... > It's a heck of an idea that only requires gathering user names and > passwords for those services, which is exactly the thing Microsoft > is saying is okay. Redmond can hardly complain. Oh yeah ... "only" ... What a joke ... easy for a journalist to say ... > pbs.org Scott C. Lemon