Re: ECN is on!

Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Tue, 22 May 2001 12:20:35 -0400


Matti Aarnio writes:
> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:06:25AM -0400, Richard Gooch wrote:
> ...
> > Sure, Dave is being bloody-minded, but that's the only way we'll see
> > people get off their fat, lazy asses and fix their broken systems.
> > In fact, hopefully he's still in a dark mood, and he may take up the
> > suggestion to bounce mails of the following type:
> > - MIME encoded
> > - HTML encoded
> > - quoted printables (those stupid "=20" things are particuarly hard to
> > read).
>
> Bounces to where ?

To the sender, of course, who is the evil culprit.

> And for that matter, people who you do want to punish do run MUAs,
> which happily open up everything -- except these bounce reports
> VGER generates. But then, vger sends those reports to
> linux-kernel-owner, who needs no additional punishment...

I don't understand what you mean here. Are you saying that these
MUAs which generate horrible messages drop bounces on the floor?!?

Regards,

Richard....
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