Re: Consensual communication (Re: Visible feature: not free to send?)

Einar Stefferud <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:49:04 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ng
Message-ID <v04220885bc5196867742@[192.168.1.14]>
If the sender does not want to send, then the sender should simply not send. 
If the sender does not want to send it, why is the sender even thinking about it? 

The sender will always have total control of sending;-)... 

What is so hard to understand about this?

At 14:45 +0000 2/12/04, Graham Klyne wrote:
>At 01:16 13/02/04 +1100, Brett Watson wrote:
>>Proposed general principle: mail-ng should enable, facilitate and make
>>efficient all message transfer in which the sender AND recipient wish to
>>participate. Conversely, it should prohibit or impede all message transfer in
>>which the sender OR recipient do not wish to participate. The system should
>>facilitate message transfer on terms which are acceptable to both
>>participants, or decline to transfer the message at all if no agreement as to
>>terms can be reached.
>
>I like that formulation, as a goal.
>
>#g
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