LJ corporate gets taken over, LJ sees signs of development life...

[solarbird]

...and everybody stops commenting on my LJ. I guess that's summer for you, or randomness, I don't even know. But it's weird.

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[kayjayuu]

Check to see if notifications are on, that happened to someone else on my flist.

[solarbird]

No, they are - I got this one - but people went quiet here.

[clemtaur]

-=ping back=-

The heat, and medical, have been wiping me out..

[solarbird]

That's cool. it's been a pleasant summer so far here - well, not technically summer even yet. But you know. ^_^

[brithistorian]

I'm still here, just kind of busy - apparently it takes me just as long to get settled back in after travelling as the original trip took me.

[solarbird]

HIIIII!

[brithistorian]

It's good to be back! :-D

[wrog]

problem is, I keep getting sucked into Facebook discussions.

Ideally I'd have the Emacs client from hell that would suck everything together and organize it in a way that I could follow, sort of like the way Usenet and gnus used to work, with infinitely customizable killfiles and everything else.

Unfortunately it's not 1991 anymore and so nobody's actually working on this.

[solarbird]

Raymond Chen kept wzmail going until... 1997? 1998? Until ITG force-terminated it, anyway. DO IT DO IT DO IIIIIIIIT

Unless you can't be buggered, of course. I certainly couldn't be. XD

[wrog]

dare I ask: what was wzmail (and what did ITG do to force-terminate it?)

(weird I didn't hear about this since I was there at the time and generally pissed off about Exchange/etc...)

[solarbird]

looooooool

Okay, do you remember Winmail? Ran against the Xenix mail servers which were running delivermail and possibly an early sendmail? Before Exchange, and before Microsoft Mail too. It was popular internally in the Windows 3.0 days, and 3.1.

If you do: wzmail (pronounced "whiz-mail") was the predecessor to Winmail. Winmail was in fact a direct port of wzmail, which is why it looked ... well, like a port of DOS app. wzmail ran in text mode, either in DOS or a DOS box under Windows 3.x and OS/2 1.x. I think there was an OS/2 command-application native version too, but I never saw that.

Raymond added MAPI support so it could talk to Exchange servers. :D Using I think SimpleMAPI and talking to the Exchange MAPI.DLL probably, but I'm not sure about that part.

But Exchange servers allow you to specify what clients are allowed to talk to it, and can do it in signed ways (pretty sure - I wasn't involved with that) to prevent spoofing. So they just said "NOPE EXCHANGE CLIENT AND OUTLOOK ONLY FROM NOW ON" and that was that.

[solarbird]

I do enjoy the tumblarz.