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Re: [Asrg] Soundness of silence

der Mouse <mouse@Rodents-Montreal.ORG> Wed, 17 June 2009 13:30 UTC

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>> When I first started using email, it could take a week to get mail
>> from Montreal to California, with a chance that sometimes approached
>> even that it would get lost on the way.  This didn't deter lots of
>> people, including me, from using it anyway.
> You were pioneers, and obviously expected that whatever steps were
> needed to amend reliability would have been taken.

Not really; we - well, I at least - did not have any expectation that
"they" would necessarily "fix" reliability.

I as a node admin did what I could to prevent our system from being
part of the precipitate, and did have an expectation that others would
do likewise - but I also knew enough about ways we could silently lose
mail that I accepted unreliability as just a fact of email life.  (And
I still do - it's just that the level of unreliability is lower.)

> In exchange for what are we giving up reliability now?

Usability.

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