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Re: [saag] keys under doormats: is our doormat ok?

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Mon, 13 July 2015 20:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [saag] keys under doormats: is our doormat ok?
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On 13/07/15 20:38, Dave Crocker wrote:
> That's a socio-political assessment and while it's easy to imagine that
> Stephen is correct, it is equally easy to imagine that he is not.

Actually it's easier to imagine I'm wrong, one way or another,
there being many more ways of being wrong, than of being correct:-)

But that's mostly why I tried to kick this off, since I'm not that
certain of my own conclusion on this.

Cheers,
S.

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