RE: friends of imap dinner tonight

[Peter Coates <peter.coates@xxxxxxx>]

Or it could mean that the Russians *expect* to have their wallets lifted so
don't report it. 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ietf-imapext@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ietf-imapext@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Mark Crispin
Sent: March 21, 2007 13:24
To: Arnt Gulbrandsen
Cc: ietf-imapext@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: friends of imap dinner tonight


On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> Several Americans have reported being relieved of their wallets during IETF. 
> No Russians have. Could this difference possibly be related to the 
> different attitudes revealed by nationals of the two countries? ;)

I presume (hope) that you mean that, compared to Russians, Americans are less
clueful about security issues when travelling abroad and have wallets which are
more worth stealing (= have more money and credit cards with higher limits).

-- Mark --

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