On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 23:06:18 -0700
Roger B A Klorese <Roger> wrote:
> J C Lawrence wrote:
>> On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 22:54:04 -0700 Roger B A Klorese <Roger> wrote:
>> Its one of my more persistent regrets that I didn't configure my MTAs
>> to auto-bounce all mail with an Outlook X-Mailer line 4 years ago...
>> It would have been ineffective of course, but it sure would feel a
>> whole lot better now.
> And it's all about how you feel, right?
Umm, of course. I run mail systems. Was there ever any question that
it was ever otherwise for any independent postmaster?
Its the rather selfish urge to have the sense that I at least tried to
do something effective, even if I knew in advance it was doomed. I
didn't at the time as I was persuaded not to by a particularly high
signal poster who also used Outlook. It was the right decision at the
time, and one I'd likely repeat today if presented with a similar
position, but that doesn't really help with the "what-if" wondering.
> I'd rather deal with the "stupidity" and "sheeplike-ness" of the
> hundreds of millions on the net today than be stuck in the ghetto we
> were in when there were fewer than a million of us here.
I like both for very different reasons. The populist 'net of today is
not an inherently Good or Bad thing -- mostly, like humanity, it just
is. There was and remains much good to say about that ghetto of 15 and
more years ago. Not all of the qualities that have been lost since then
were good ones, but many were and I do regret their loss.
J C Lawrence
---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
claw@kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh?
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
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