On Thu, 2015-11-12 at 19:41 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 04:51:22PM +1100, Tim Connors via luv-talk wrote:
Wouldn't the market solution to be to continue doing things from the technically correct point of view on infrastructure we maintain, and ignore companies that don't?
yahoo senders, sending to a mailing list can't have their mail received by google recievers, and it's because yahoo are being silly regarding choice of standards? Easy. If the yahoo customers care about being listened to, then they'll change providers.
and if yahoo cares about keeping their users, they'll change what they're doing.
Unfortunately, there are too many of the "great unwashed" who are uninformed, and just say that the others must be wrong. It is a social problem, that too much business merely want consumers, forgetting that it is their workers who are the customers, and most importantly, are citizens. I see too much similarities to the bread and circuses of the decline of the Roman Empire. Nick Hanauer had the right of it in predicting the pitchforks if the inequalities continue to grow. And they will with a population of uninformed and ignorant consumers who expect to be entertained and somewhat greedy. There are a number of components to solving the problem, technical and social. Recognising all of that is an essential to coping and finding a real solution rather than a mere stopgap that will also fail in time.
pandering to them gives them no reason to change.
craig
Regards, Mark Trickett