-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Rudd wrote: > Sander Holthaus wrote: > >> >> Dennis Peterson wrote: > >>> This is a very naive or at least uninformed position to take on the >>> monetary significance of email. > >> The issue is that email never was designed to be used in that >> particular fashion. > > No offense, but Dennis is right. You're being naive. The issue is > not "how it was designed to be used". The issue is "how it is > actually used". The latter carries FAR more weight, outside of > purely academic discussions, than the former. > > Even though I work at a university, I do not live in an academic > world. I live in the real world. And in the real world, email is > used that way, and it is a mission critical service that has > financial repercussions. Arguing about how it was designed to be > used is just picking nits. It has nothing to do with being naive, it has to do with understanding the constraints of the specific technology. I'm perfectly well aware of what (business) people expect from (E)SMTP, but even if I do my best to meet their expectations, I still have to rely on others and the basic fundamental design of (E)SMTP and the Internet to get the job done. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQFFl5GkVf373DysOTURAqX/AKDYli887JxUpAzxp25TO20rj4pAHQCghvNw 2Z/LiVdBFtJQV0aFUKO7A2g= =N50k -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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