At 7:10 PM -0700 4/8/03, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
Now ftp is bad enough, but UUCP? The only files people used to
download by mail were the sort that they now get unsolicited
by mail and this group is about stopping.
There seems to be a tendency here to not read anything anymore, but
to look for keywords and respond to them.
Vernon did not once advocate UUCP. He simply pointed out that using
FTP as a justification for not responding with full bounce info in
email was clearly an option suggested by someone who didn't
understand the difference between a connected protocol and a
disconnected protocol. A better choice would be to compare email to
UUCP. Dead on.
And then yesterday I make a crack about newsgroups, and people start
critiquing Usenet--like that had anything to do with anything.
Can we *please* stick to the subject of these messages, and not the
subjects we make up out of thin air?
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
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.
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