Re: [108attendees] Meetecho participant pics

I miss hanging out with you Henk.

Bret

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On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 3:57 PM Henk Birkholz <
henk.birkholz@sit.fraunhofer.de> wrote:

> Isn't "attendees" already an alias for "bike-shed"?
>
> Sorry :-) To be totally honest here, I am not unhappy to see at least
> one lengthy, curious thread on the 108attendees list! Makes this IETF
> experience feel a little bit closer to... the real thing - as long as we
> are civil and we think of Dijkstra if the discussion becomes too circular.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Henk
>
> On 27.07.20 23:45, Bret Jordan wrote:
> > Whether people opt to have a Gravatar or not is about as relevant to the
> > IETF as if you drink Non-fat, 1%, 2%, 3%, Half-Half, for Full Cream milk
> > or if you are against people drinking milk all together. Or better yet,
> > if the toilet paper roll should roll forward or backward.  Gravatar has
> > been around for a very long time, since early 2007. If you are just
> > finding out about it now, then, well, sorry.  But it has been around for
> > a long time. A lot of services and sites on the internet use it, it is a
> > great idea. If you do not want one, then do not get one. Simple. But it
> > is nice to have a single place to update your "avatar" and have it work
> > in a lot of places.
> >
> > We should really have a list called bike-shed@ietf.org
> > <mailto:bike-shed@ietf.org> so all of these discussions and debates can
> > be moved there.
> >
> > Bret
> >
> > Sent from my TI-99/4A
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> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 3:37 PM Robert Moskowitz
> > <rgm@labs.htt-consult.com <mailto:rgm@labs.htt-consult.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     On 7/27/20 4:36 PM, John Levine wrote:
> >      > In article
> >     <0bca5ca1-1f1e-f13c-f64b-7f9787be6271@labs.htt-consult.com
> >     <mailto:0bca5ca1-1f1e-f13c-f64b-7f9787be6271@labs.htt-consult.com>>
> >     you write:
> >      >> Exactly my concern.
> >      >>
> >      >> I don't HAVE a Wordpress account; why do I need one?
> >      > A few seconds of clicking reveals that Gravatar is run by
> Automattic
> >      > which is better known as Wordpress.com. That's why you need a
> >      > Wordpress account, it *is* Wordpress.
> >     I am not aware of any business reason for me to get a Wordpress
> account.
> >
> >     Ergo I will not have a gravatar.
> >
> >     Simple.
> >
> >     Others will undoubtedly have a different calculus.
> >
> >      >
> >      > They have a detailed privacy policy here:
> >      >
> >      > https://automattic.com/privacy/
> >      >
> >      > It's pretty reasonable, no sale of info to third parties, the most
> >      > evil thing they do is use your profile info to target ads on their
> >      > site, which doesn't apply to Gravatar since it's not providing
> ads,
> >      > just mapping hashes of addresses to pictures. I've had my
> >     Gravatar set
> >      > up for ages including for some addresses that only Wordpress
> >     knows and
> >      > I've never gotten any unexpected spam to those addresses.
> >      >
> >      > I suspect it wouldn't be terribly hard to use the Datatracker pix
> >     instead
> >      > but I'd put it pretty low on the list of things to do.
> >      >
> >      > R's,
> >      > John
> >      >
> >
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