Dave and all,

Dave Crocker wrote:

> At 01:02 PM 3/15/99 +0100, Roberto Gaetano wrote:
> >In other words, they succeeded in their goal.
> >Which would not have happened if everybody could keep Fred Baker's attitude
> >of ignoring them.
>
> I happen to agree with you, but the reality is that for a number of
> reasons, these people are not ignored and their comments DO cause
> problems.  I'm a fan of having each participant do the filtering, but it
> turns out not to be practical in this particular instantiation of reality,
> so we need a procedure for dealing with it.

  I suppose that ignorance is bliss.  But it is not reality..  On the other
hand ignoring input is in and of itself a form of abuse as well.  To
do so limits one's horizons and leads to misconceptions.

>
>
> >If people complain about this in the IETF lists, please have a look on other
> >DNS-related lists, that are much more .... poisonous than the poised, as
> >Dave knows very well, being one of the favourite targets of these childish
> >attacks.
>
> Yes, and look how little productive exchange takes place on those lists.

  We all of course enjoy you ALWAYS productive exchanges such
as this one....

>
>
> d/
>
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