Yesterday at lunch with Rob, David and Jorge, I was humorously telling Rob how he shouldn’t be worried blue if David shoots down his ideas as it’s always 50-50 chance his innovation will get manager’s royal blessing. However I claimed to be more relieved since we are not lone developers facing this. Bill Gates’s sender id initiative was also shot down by IETF. [Bill Gates e-mail ID plan rejected]. Might not be the best place for this quote but it’s a good one.
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot'' than the stigma of conformity. Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
I liked the senderid initiative, it had some flaws but oh well, there are always false positives for bayesian filtering too. May be IETF has an alternative, does it really?
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