Re: [gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 28 August 2020 01:30:58 BST Ashley Dixon wrote: > I can't really comment on LaTeX, because I've never really used it; from > the small snippets I've seen, I just assume it's TeX with a hell of a lot > of useful macros. I've always just stuck to TeX, with a copy of the > TeXBook

Re: [gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-27 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 06:02:43PM -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 8/27/20 11:55 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > > Nevertheless, as xkcd so brilliantly explains, TeX inspires a level of blind > > trust in the content of a document [2]. As long as you avoid proposing > > standards in the form of an

Re: [gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-27 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/27/20 11:55 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: Well said; thanks for the correction. Of course. My intention is to positively contribute to and learn from the community. Mathematical notation can be seen as a tightly coupled analogue to this sort of typesetting: the same book that

Re: [gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-27 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 10:26:59PM -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > I'm sure there are those that will disagree with me. But I don't think it's > as important how professional things look as long as they are sound ideas. > Lest it be an ad hominem attack. Which, as previously indicated is not a >

Re: [gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-26 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/26/20 7:07 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote: I meant (a), in the sense that you should probably write it up in a more presentable fashion than a GitHub README page. You might want to nicely typeset it in TeX or something to make it seem more serious. Just a suggestion... I'm sure there

Re: [gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-26 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 08:33:58PM +, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > On Wednesday, August 26, 2020 9:57 PM, Ashley Dixon > wrote: > > > Why the name "HillaryMail", and why does the logo contain a picture of > > Margaret Thatcher? ;-) > > very true (re: thatcher). now i cannot unsee the >

Re: [gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-26 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Wednesday, August 26, 2020 9:57 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > Why the name "HillaryMail", and why does the logo contain a picture of > Margaret > Thatcher? ;-) very true (re: thatcher). now i cannot unsee the thatcher in the pixel art. i have 2 options: (1) rename protocol into

Re: [gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-26 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/26/20 3:33 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: I would suggest using any reference to Hillary Clinton. Typo: I would suggest *NOT* using any reference to Hillary Clinton. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-26 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/26/20 2:33 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: as for the name "hillarymail", nothing against her. I would suggest using any reference to Hillary Clinton. I believe her name is too politically charged to use it in good faith. it's just that i heard so much about hillary's mails up to a

[gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-26 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
hi. i request comments on this new mail protocol which i plan to implement some day if things turn out well. here is its zeroth draft: https://github.com/al-caveman/hillarymail rgrds, cm.

Re: [gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-26 Thread james
On 8/26/20 1:57 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 05:19:16PM +, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: hi. i request comments on this new mail protocol which i plan to implement some day if things turn out well. here is its zeroth draft: https://github.com/al-caveman/hillarymail

Re: [gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-26 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 05:19:16PM +, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > hi. i request comments on this new mail protocol > which i plan to implement some day if things turn > out well. here is its zeroth draft: > > https://github.com/al-caveman/hillarymail Interesting proposal. A few