understand their reluctance. Open Source developers also tend to take a
more inflexible stance when it comes to companies and software which
ignore standards. I supposed if some enterprising programmer wanted to
When a piece of spam clogs your mail server, and fetchmail repeatedly
fetches it a thousand times (yes, this has happened to us, and I can
trivially send you a message which will make it happen to you),
standards don't really have anything to do with anything. That
message needs to get fetched and removed from the server without
human intervention.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/ Anti-Spam Service for your POP Account
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.