I'm not sure that your statement and mine are mutually exclusive.
Aren't the suckiness of in-protocol email-improvement proposals at least partially due to their efforts to remain backwards-compatible and not break the world? (I am assuming, anyway. It's not like I read the damn things...)
I don't think so. I've not heard of a protocol that would be open and simultaneously spam-free. Nor can I imagine one. This makes me suspect that these are not compatible goals.
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Date: 2005-12-02 09:49 pm (UTC)Aren't the suckiness of in-protocol email-improvement proposals at least partially due to their efforts to remain backwards-compatible and not break the world? (I am assuming, anyway. It's not like I read the damn things...)
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Date: 2005-12-02 10:29 pm (UTC)