On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Ed Gorman wrote:
> > I will not bow to someone getting irked because the email took less than
> > 100th of a second longer to download. RFC1855 was written in the 1990's
> > when 14.4k modems were the norm and the data was based on 9k speeds.
That's true, and a 14.4k modem could transfer a 20-line sig just fine.
I don't think the ideas in RFC1855, titled "Netiquette Guidelines", were
recommended simply because of slow transfer rates, and IMHO I don't consider
those ideas to be outdated, either.
> > Spam is unsolicited email and my emails have nothing to do with spam.
One of the biggest issues surrounding the term "spam" is that it seems to
mean something different to different people. To many, email phishing
is "spam", trolling is "spam", chain letters are "spam" -- etc. So try not
to assume that what you think is spam is the same definition everyone else
goes by.
[And similarly, many consider spam filters part of "the firewall",
regardless of how many times it's explained.]
On Wednesday 31 October 2007, feathered frog wrote:
> 2. If you can identify an RFC that supercedes RFC1855, please let me know
> which one it is - these are the documents that are supposed to govern the
> internet. They are the agreement we're supposed to be bound to. If there
> isn't a superceding document, why are you flouting these agreements in such
> an agressive manner?
Not disagreeing, just want to include some irony.
- RFC stands for "Remit For Comment". Often these are used in lieu of
standards as if they were standards, when really they're
the-next-best-thing and "best pracitices". They're usually *right*,
IMHO, and so like others I read them and do my best to respect them.
- Alan Cox found out that if he had implemented the RFC covering TCP/IP
exactly as it had been written at the time that communication broke.
This example illustrates that, on rare occasion, an RF (or even a
standard) doesn't actually represent a working technical implementation.
-- Chris
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