On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: > Failure, actually. It shows that democratic decisions > tend to produce technically suboptimal results.
The vote in this case shows that majority of subscribers value their convenience more than cool stories of someone's past stupidity or settings guidelines from, of all things, GNU software. To most people, it is pretty clear that convenience * number of users > some contrived case of someone getting hurt due to not thinking before doing something — an intuitive economic argument that somehow eludes people who value SMTP headers over what users actually want. > That the whole list was spammed with voting traffic > just adds insult to injury -- Dunning-Kruger in > action. It is pretty clear that people wanted their opinion to be known. Just asking for something (individual replies in case of this vote) doesn't mean that everyone will comply. Don't assume that you are smarter than everyone else just because you are better versed in technical aspects of some issue. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
