That's true as well, Jay - what can I say...
On 05.01.2022 19:42, Jay Hennigan via mailop wrote: > On 1/5/22 07:03, Carsten Schiefner via mailop wrote: >> How about registering a Hotmail account for this purpose? >> >> And if you play it via its web GUI, I’m sure you’d get through. > > That's exactly what the end goal is. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish > > * Embrace - Take the RFC standards for email and incorporate them into > MS products. > > * Extend - Incorporate email into a proprietary product > (Hotmail/Outlook/Office365). > > * Extinguish - Ensure that any use of the original standard not > incorporating MS's proprietary products is difficult or impossible. > > If the only way to send email to Microsoft or its customers is to use a > Microsoft product, they've won. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
