On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:53:34 -0500 Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[ ... ] > However, sometimes mail systems go down or block traffic for whatever > reason: postmaster's job is a thankless task, and this was true even > before spam and viral email appeared. Nowadays, it's harder to get > things mostly right (nevermind "perfect"), so postmasters make > imperfect decisions because they are faced with undesirable tradeoffs. Indeed :-( However banning a hole country isn't a tradeoff in my book, it's just plain [inset_the_word_here]. And sine it's giving a 5XX code there's really no way to reach the person in question. > It has not been my observation that insisting people not make any > mistakes commonly results in fewer mistakes being made, or much less, > in zero mistakes being made. :-) Rather than try to insist they > "are not allowed" to do something, I'd prefer to let people make > their own decisions and learn which ones are mistakes. YMMV.... The problem is that, IMHO, this kind of rejecting affects us all as I think that being a port maintainer implies receiving and replying to users' email. I don't use any of the ports maintainer by Nils so I could not care, but I think it's my responsibility as commiter to point out that this is a mistake. -- IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" Fascinating, a totally parochial attitude. -- Spock, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8
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