Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

[Caveman Al Toraboran]

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On Friday, August 28, 2020 2:35 AM, Ashley Dixon <ash@××××××××××.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 09:07:03PM +0000, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
>
> > anyway i'm out of this. massive waste of time. i
> > could've finished server-side hillarymail by it.
>
> Oh, come on. People on this list have decades of experience managing and
> implementing e-mail protocols, and you call their (free) help a "massive waste
> of time"? Stop being silly and realise that no initial proposal is completely
> flawless.

it's not against "people on the list".  it's
rather for them.  because continuing talking to
grant (and soon you) is fueling a useless
conversation that is effectively vandalising the
mailboxes of 100s of people on this list.

now you're posting this yet another useless drama
message trying to make it sound as if it's against
"people on the list" or as if i'm too defensive of
hillarymail.

so now i'll also stop talking to you in this
sub-thread (in addition to grant taylor).

nothing personal.  we may talk in other
sub-threads.  it's just that talking to you 2 in
these late threads became a fuel to vandalise
others' mailboxes.


> As I keep urging you, define some goals (and as Grant said, start with defining
> the current problem), finish an initial standards document, and begin writing a
> reference implementation. Or just define some of the core algorithms with
> pseudocode. I can almost-guarantee that you will start realising things that
> need changing almost immediately upon doing so.

nothing new.  we already discussed this in the
other sub-thread and, as i said there, i am
already planning to write an implementation.  and
i'm already refining the draft.  i don't know why
you keep repeating non-new things over and over
(zero information content).

that sub-thread has also became very useless
thanks to you and grant for talking about margaret
thatcher, LaTeX and other unrelated things.  zero
actual comments about technical aspects.


> Perhaps it is just me with my English sense of over-politeness, but I find your
> conduct to be remarkably audacious (and frankly rude) considering all the time
> people are spending to help you. ... And if you don't want this sort of on-line
> discourse, why did you post on the list at all?

is your "English" sense of "over-politeness"
capable of sensing vandalism caused by having you
post texts with low information content, or
irrelevant info, to people's inboxes? (rhetorical)