Re: Do you really not care whether people accept your mail?

Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> Mon, 13 March 2017 23:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: Do you really not care whether people accept your mail?
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
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> On Mar 13, 2017, at 6:51 PM, John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
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> Nobody is impressed that your mail system does exactly what it did 20 years ago, and it gives outsiders the impression that the IETF is a bunch of out of touch sociopaths.

So much this above. You either conform to the norms or are the outlier. Grousing on a mailing list when most of the world is using something else will get you results similar to /dev/null

- jared