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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
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