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Re: [ietf-dkim] (offtopicish) RFC 4871 Word Cloud

2009-04-18 18:34:42

On Apr 18, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Hector Santos wrote:

What bothers me though is that much of whats going on is being done by
14-18 years old who IMO lack experience in social engineering and
ethical design considerations.  To them the idea of COOKIES and
JAVASCRIPT being disabled is unthinkable.

The lesson here is that irrational paranoia can damage useful
http standards. Also, that you shouldn't limit your use to the lowest
common denominator, the most irrationally paranoid of the
paranoids. When a potential user is 4 or 5 sigmas away from
normal behaviour, they're probably irrelevant.

There's probably a more general lesson about ignoring the
extremists while doing application - or protocol - development,
and catering to what the vast majority of normal, rational users
will find useful. As opposed to, say, catering to what only a tiny
fraction of users want at the expense of the vast majority.

Cheers,
   Steve

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