Re: draft-freed-sieve-in-xml status?

["Robert Burrell Donkin" <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Ned Freed <[e-mail]> wrote:

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>> >> for the class of application (enterprise mail servers is a name that's
>> >> sometimes used but quite possibly that's not familiar to others in the
>> >> group), unfortunately it is
>> >
>> > Robert, developing enterprise and ISP class mail servers is what I do for a
>> > living. I've been doing it for over 20 years now. So I think this is something
>> > I might know just a little bit about.
>
>> i am not unaware of your background but i fail to see why i should
>> respect your arguments when you are so clearly uninformed about a
>> class of mail server which are almost a decade old now
>
> And by the same token, why should I respect any of your arguments when you
> clearly have minimal knoeledge of overall email architecture, Sieve semanticss,
> or IETF processes?

ad hominem are widely acknowledged to be the best way to win
discussions on the internet and play a vital role in the creation of
high standard specifications

i think i understand why the IEFT is now held in such low regard by
most modern developers and why i was warned against participating in
this group

- robert