On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 01:44:56PM -0600, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: > > Try this: Does the taxi fail to take you to someone's house if the > person opens their front door, sees it is you, and then slams the > door in your face? -- Did the taxi fail to get you to the person's > front door in any way?
None of the three analogies is really comparable (phone call, postal mail, taxi) because in each case the person doing the rejecting is the intended recipient. Who certainly has the moral right to reject. Try this: You live in an apartment and invite a friend over for dinner (message sent by you and received by your friend). They take the taxi over to your place and arrive (response email IP packet reaches t-online). But, your building has a cantankerous doorman who doesn't like how your friend looks and slams the door in their face. The doorman doesn't check whether you wanted this visitor and doesn't even tell you what they just did. So, you sit in your apartment all night waiting and wondering why the friend isn't arriving but you will never know. That's a good analogy for t-online. Both the sender and recipient are innocent victims of t-online's oddball behavior. -- Jyri J. Virkki - Santa Cruz, CA -- _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
