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From: owner-spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of James
Couzens
Sent: October 21, 2004 2:58 PM
To: spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [spf-discuss] Re: When did we lose control?
The only consistent thing here is
that they continually do this! Each release of windows is
worse! More bugs! More code!
More money!
I understand fully well that you have a hatred for Microsoft, but that
particular point shows your deliberate ignorance: if you had actually been
suffering with Windows for the past decade like many of us, you'd realize
that the newer releases are not worse, but far better in pretty much every
aspect.
Maybe I'm on the wrong mailing list, but I thought this mailing list was
supposed to be about anti-email-forgery technology, not about factually
incorrect opinionated rants about software that has absolutely nothing to do
with anti-forgery technology.
What your little anti-MS crusade is doing is telling people in Redmond that
hey, it's worthless making (or just contemplating) any sacrifices for the
sake of a common standard because those communistic open source zealots
backing SPF aren't willing to listen to anything or talk about anything.
Then in the PR game (or worse, if government regulatory agencies were to get
involved, in these agencies' eyes), THEY look like the cooperative good guys
while you (and anyone you drag into this crusade of yours) look like the one
prioritizing ideology over pragmatic achievement, even though they are
actually equally, if not more so, guilty of it. MS has gazillion of
well-paid spin professionals whose job is to make open source and its
partisans look bad, so if you want SPF to succeed, don't make their job
easier by feeding them quality soundbites.
Vivien (as usual, speaking only for myself...)