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.