full-disclosure - OT MS Code names (Was Re: Re: NEVER open attachments)

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From: mikehome at kcisp.net (Mike Barushok)
Subject: OT MS Code names (Was Re: Re: NEVER open attachments)

There does appear to be some places these code names have
been unofficially listed, i.e.
 http://gomo.no-ip.com/other/Microsoft%20Codenames.htm

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 gadgeteer@...gantinnovations.org wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 03:42:10PM -0500, VB (vb@...smart.com) wrote:
> > Thanks for the info. i did open your attachment.
> > Now dont hurt yourself falling off your high horse. I did not write Outlook
> > Express, perhaps your bitterness would be better off directed to those that
> > did.
> 
> from a private email:
> [...]
>   The original MS-MAIL came from a Canadian company
>   that MS acquired way back. Some of the people in the
>   Redmond building 16 were veterans from that old company.
>   The reply semantics in their mail client dated back to
>   those days, before MS was even on the scene.
> [edit note: above bit refers to the top post and other M$ MUA behavior]
> 
>   Before that, in 1993 or so, I wrote a paper for a PM
>   at MS which outlined how to fixup the then 'Capone'
>   project (which was named 'Outlook' later) such that
>   it interoperated with SMTP and POP and used sensible
>   reply semantics. I didn't get that contract because the PM
>   discovered that an engineer there had independently
>   written his own Internet mail client, which was called
>   'Athena' then, and which eventually became 'Outlook Express'.
> [...]
> 
> PM == project manager
> 
> A little (perhaps) unwritten history...
> -- 
> Chief Gadgeteer
> Elegant Innovations
>