On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 00:53 +0200, Thomas Bendler wrote:

> Hi Yasha,

> 

> 2011/7/2 Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]>

>         [...]

>         I too agree and was rather surprised to find this much

>         discourse on the subject on a professional list, 



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> everyone has personal flavors but they might not be correct. Please

> read the relevant RFC (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html), this is

> something the where the community already made a commitment back in

> 1995 (two years after I started writing to new groups and mailing

> lists) and this is something that worked well since then. So I

> understood your point of view (and maybe the view of your colleagues),

> but this is not what is committed in the community for nearly to

> decades.



Ah, but you have to admit it got everyone's juices flowing - I've never

seen a thread attract so much traffic in such a short space of time. ;)

Perhaps it was seen as a welcome break and a thread to let off steam on

all sides of the argument, something a list server was not designed to

do.