Re: [Asrg] Email service assumptions and making system-wide changes

You wrote:
>A re-design effort makes sense only
> after two pre-conditions are met:
>    a) new requirements are formulated and gain community consensus, and

>    b) attempts are made to retrofit the existing service to satisfy those

> requirements, but the efforts fail.

I couldn't agree more.

> So far, we have been astonishingly successful at adding capabilities to
Internet
> mail, so I strongly suspect that the real problem is in formulating the
> requirements.

Yes.

d.

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