On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 00:53 +0200, Thomas Bendler wrote: > Hi Yasha, > > 2011/7/2 Yasha Karant <[email protected]> > [...] > I too agree and was rather surprised to find this much > discourse on the subject on a professional list,
snip > everyone has personal flavors but they might not be correct. Please > read the relevant RFC (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html), this is > something the where the community already made a commitment back in > 1995 (two years after I started writing to new groups and mailing > lists) and this is something that worked well since then. So I > understood your point of view (and maybe the view of your colleagues), > but this is not what is committed in the community for nearly to > decades. Ah, but you have to admit it got everyone's juices flowing - I've never seen a thread attract so much traffic in such a short space of time. ;) Perhaps it was seen as a welcome break and a thread to let off steam on all sides of the argument, something a list server was not designed to do.
