Theodore Ts'o writes: > You've been making the same point over and over (and over) > again. To some, perhaps. I'm not so sure that it has yet been made even once to others. > It's probably the case that people who will be convinced by your > arguments, will have accepted the force of your arguments by now. > For people who don't accept your arguments, they are not likely to > be swayed by a "last post wins" style of argumentation. It depends. People with an emotional attachment to a specific notion will never been convinced otherwise, but people who simply don't understand something may change their mind once they understand. > May I gently suggest that you stop and think before deciding > whether you need to respond to each message on this thread, and > whether you have something new and cogent to add, as opposed to > something which you've said already, in some cases multiple times? May I gently suggest that you use the delete key on your keyboard for messages that you don't want to see? I doubt that bandwidth is a problem at MIT. It has always worked for me, and I'm constrained by much more limited bandwidth. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf