From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.toke.dk (mail.toke.dk [45.145.95.4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ADH-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C78683B29E for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:24:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Toke =?utf-8?Q?H=C3=B8iland-J=C3=B8rgensen?= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=toke.dk; s=20161023; t=1617189889; bh=Vy24JXzeB1B1TKuE1H+jwhzSlGwsfNkiZQXCa3j9z2E=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=A68RGM+zxJ5cmlI3enlxwfbpvkpqI4XxTWPW5Yd862q0XLizj1jiP3WoOYemEKrZL Kr2JCX7GOaDeIkyn3+jExVEbzHRTQG498OBZ6YPYhO7bx70NLRiihiur9TBE4EWK3l g5rwzXkIYxO4UB9uN4T1B1bneGFv56tE3WBnSiGHIkBbsHSFdkSvTjo9cpKTXRsvcQ 9zm8MZiQD5N+67sy0ynwRUpi2Swg/UkuUjPIWMAV++DNQlx6IWJ5+G0I/YYj+pD4qt adL4ANHlMrYHOM69P/BeUeIKVJGewzy94uF9E827h5pMQIEMOx9As1nxs90pmG11xB 00Lgp3CR5higQ== To: William Allen Simpson , cerowrt-devel Cc: Karl Auerbach Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Fwd: geeks, internet In-Reply-To: References: <20210331025052.GA10360@mail.taht.net> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:24:49 +0200 X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Message-ID: <87y2e3pnum.fsf@toke.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:24:53 -0000 William Allen Simpson writes: > Thanks. I didn't know about the internet-history mailing list. > If I survive my covid vaccination today, I'll join it. > (My father died within 4 hours of his 1st Moderna dose.) > > Strongly agree with Karl Auerbach. I've had the opportunity of > living with a (now former) Member of Congress for 20+ years. > > As I've said many times, all human interaction involves politics. > We Internauts designing and implementing standards are also > involved in politics, but are very bad at it. +1 - I've always considered the view "I don't want to do politics" to be incredibly naive... (also, that list looks like a delightful collection of old farts - think I might just subscribe :D) -Toke