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Re: [Asrg] seeking comments on new RMX article

2003-05-06 10:08:59
No disrespect was intended.  The silly quotes were not meant to refer to 
anything you said but to be a general, while sarcastic, summary of the list's 
response to RMX and similar schemes.

On Tuesday 06 May 2003 10:54 am, Dave Crocker wrote:
David,

When you are summarizing comments from others, please make some effort
to reflect what they actually said.  Re-casting their statements into a
form that is silly and false is not especially constructive.

d/

DW> The reason RMX records haven't made a big impact to date is the lack of
a DW> standard.  On this list there have been numerous proposals, each
slightly DW> different and each one has been met with silly arguments like
"if we do that DW> I won't be able to send anonymous e-mails pretending to
be Ronald Reagan" or, DW> more realistically, "but then I'd have to send my
hotmail messages actually DW> through the hotmail service and that would
suck"

DW> On Monday 05 May 2003 04:27 pm, Dave Crocker wrote:
an explanation of the real utility of rmx records has, so far, been
based on assumptions and assertions that run contrary to the user and
operations history of the Internet.

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