Wise thoughts, I agree!
Best Regards, Jonas Falck CEO & Co-Founder HALON SECURITY INC 100 Montgomery Street, Suite 1080 San Francisco, CA 94104, USA Phone: +1 415.992.5583 Cell: +1.650.445.9076 www.inumbo.com - Enterprise anti-spam/malware/phishing service - no contract, no commitments. www.halonsecurity.com - Award winning security software for datacenter,hosting and service providers. On Apr 10, 2014, at 9:29 PM, Terry Zink <[email protected]> wrote: >> Consider: What this attitude might mostly be demonstrating is that humans >> tend to be >> able to adjust to anything... whether they should or not. >> >> It's a version of the rat in the increasingly hot water phenomenon. > > As an off-topic aside, this is not a weakness of humanity. It's a strength; > without our ability to adapt to our environments we probably would have gone > extinct a long time ago. For example, if you ask people how they think they > would adapt to particular situations, humans are *extremely* bad at > predicting their own level of happiness. For example, people who have lost a > leg think they'll be very depressed for the rest of their lives. They are in > the beginning but after a while their happiness reverts back to the same > level as before. > > Similarly, unhappy or depressed people who win the lottery are initially > happy but after a few months they revert back to their own previous level. > > This inability to predict how we will feel in the future in response to > change is called the Affective Forecasting bias. Yet as it turns out, people > are good at adapting to change even when they previously thought it would be > bad. > > Hmm, on second thought, maybe it's not that off-topic...? > > -- Terry > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Crocker > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 10:36 AM > To: Al Iverson; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [dmarc-discuss] Hey, Yahoo, you just broke my church mailing list > > On 4/10/2014 11:21 AM, Al Iverson wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Roland Turner >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> I am going to assume that Yahoo!'s email people haven't lost their >>>> minds and >>>> - despite the failure to give a heads up - actually did carefully >>>> assess the impact of the change before making it and that, >>>> therefore, they're not likely to undo this change. Note in >>>> particular that the rua/ruf mechanisms originated with Yahoo!, it >>>> seems rather unlikely that they neglected to consult them. If my >>>> assumption is correct, then the sensible behaviour for list >>>> operators would now appear to be to let go of the reflexive "not our >>>> problem" response and embrace a "here is how we can make it work" stance >>>> because, clearly, it now is a list operator's problem. >> This is wise and everybody should read it twice. >> >> I think that most mailing list managers are reasonable people and as >> they move through the five stages of grief, they'll get beyond the >> "this is wrong and I hate it" and will probably eventually move on to >> "well, this is still wrong, but it makes sense to deal with it." > > > Consider: What this attitude might mostly be demonstrating is that humans > tend to be able to adjust to anything... whether they should or not. > > It's a version of the rat in the increasingly hot water phenomenon. > > It's what folk who disempowered tend to feel they must do. > > d/ > > -- > Dave Crocker > Brandenburg InternetWorking > bbiw.net > _______________________________________________ > dmarc-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.dmarc.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc-discuss > > NOTE: Participating in this list means you agree to the DMARC Note Well terms > (http://www.dmarc.org/note_well.html) > > _______________________________________________ > dmarc-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.dmarc.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc-discuss > > NOTE: Participating in this list means you agree to the DMARC Note Well terms > (http://www.dmarc.org/note_well.html) _______________________________________________ dmarc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://www.dmarc.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc-discuss NOTE: Participating in this list means you agree to the DMARC Note Well terms (http://www.dmarc.org/note_well.html)
