On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:21:15 EST, Hector Santos said: > mindset. Quite frankly, there seems to be conflictive old guru closed > minded attitude about the realities of the mail industry delimas which > perpetuates a dearth of interest to finally address the issues one way or > another. You guys (speaking in general) need to listen and begin "opening > your minds." What is often mistaken as "old guru closed mind attitude" is the experience to be able to tell that *any* proposal in category X is doomed to failure unless problems A, B, and C are addressed, and any proposal in Y has almost-certain fatal flaws D and E, and so on. Another common error is failing to understand the realities of scaling and deployment. It would take me a short afternoon to put something up to test, understanding that it was beta-quality software. Getting everybody in my department moved is a much bigger challenge, and migrating 60K users is a year-long proposition, and migrating the millions of users of an AOL or Hotmail is a daunting issue indeed. (Hint - how many extra first-line help desk people would AOL need to hire, and what would the price be for that? Is the cost of the migration more than their current anti-spam costs, or not? Don't forget to include burning 100M new coaster^H^H^H^H^H CD's with 'AOL 10.0 - now with new anti-spam' on it). TV ads. Lots of them. You'll need them. If you don't understand why, don't bother commenting until you do. ;) Oh, and don't forget that you're not allowed to break anybody's connectivity at any point along the line. The NCP->IP migration was bad enough wnen there were only several hundred hosts. We'll never get to do that again. If you have half the users migrated to SMTP-bis and half are still on SMTP-classic, they *will* have to be able to communicate, or you *will* be fired. So for instance, the previous paragraph is why *any* proposal that doesn't provide benefit until 98% or so of the net has deployed it is doomed to fail unless you give a *really* good explanation of why 98% of the people should deploy it when it isn't going to give them any benefit if 3% of the OTHER people don't bother....
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