Yes, William and I frequently disagree. The subsequent history of these
disagreements has proven me right and William wrong in nearly every case.
Frequently, the commonly held beliefs aren't true. In consequence, I don't
uncritically accept that what someone else claims is true. I analyze their
claims. And my record on anti-spam claims is pretty good. In fact, on
nearly all (maybe all) of the mistakes by Anti-spammers, I correctly
analyzed it and found it to be foolhardy when it was __proposed__.
Subsequent experiences with those mistakes bore out my analysis: They
worked or failed to work more or less as I expected. And this goes all the
way back to the diconnection of Sanford Wallace and the collapse of the
IEMCC.
So, while William tries weakly to launch an ad-hominem attack, the truth
is that my credibility is enhanced by having a history of having been
proven right with regard to past stupid ideas proposed and executed by
anti-spammers.
--Dean
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, william(at)elan.net wrote:
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Dean Anderson wrote:
My apologies. Everyting that is obvious to me isn't obvious to everyone.
I suspect many here who are not subscribed to main and some other ietf
lists can't imagine how much this sentence is applicable in reverse
(replace "is" with "isnt" and other way around) to many of the posts
I've seen from Dean Anderson.
Sorry for OT and of course "My apologies"
P.S. For the future lets not use "everything" and "obvious" in statements
or even just in same sentence. There would not be so many discussions
on this list if everything was so obvious :)
---
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net