On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 08:18:18AM -0700, Hugo Slabbert wrote: > On Tue 2015-Sep-08 06:45:55 +1000, Bron Gondwana <br...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 8, 2015, at 04:39, Gary Baribault wrote: > >>On 07/09/15 02:31 PM, mikea wrote: > >>>On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 02:10:48PM -0400, Gary Baribault wrote: > >>>>Whatever happened to postmas...@example.com? > >>>First, it was a standard. > >>> > >>>Second, it got too much traffic. > >> > >>I get the too much traffic part, what's wrong with it being a standard? > >> > >How can you be a special snowflake and make your own stamp on the world if > >you follow a standard? > > > > As a numbered list of gripes/issues/concerns it doesn't make too much sense. > As a chronology, though? > > "First, this happened (which was fine). > Then, this happened (which sucked)." > > Perhaps mikea meant the latter.
<cynical> It's a standard, so they elect to not follow it. More the rule than the exception nowadays w.r.t. standards, I fear. Second, it's a standard, so it gets too much mail, and they'd prefer not to have to deal with even valid complaints, much less invalid complaints and spam. </cynical> -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop
