Tuesday, July 27, 1999, 7:43:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael,
>> <snip>
>> taken over John's NewCo. Only a fool would continue to refuse to
>> listen to those who oppose them, many of whom post to the IFWP. It
>> is not we who are in need of your messages, but you who are in need
>> of ours.
>>
> Besides the fact that it is Jon, not John, and that everybody should be able
> to decide by him/herself whether he/she is in need to read something or not,
> my opinion is that Paul's reply should not be isolated from the context,
> which was a forwarded message by Richard that is probably not of great
> interest to the participants to this mailing list (in fact, the only comment
> I saw to the original post was from Karl, who would have read it in the IETF
> lists anyhow).
> I agree with Paul Vixie that a message should be distributed to the relevant
> discussion groups (which in the specific case did not include the IFWP), and
> not Urbi et Orbi.
> In fact you did not react to the original message, but just to the
> forwarding to the public list of a private message from Paul to Richard
> (BTW, I thought that it was not really compliant with Netiquette...)
Actually Robert, this message was of great interest to many, including
myself and I'm sure others on this list. Lack of a response does not
imply lack of interest.
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