Quoting Rado S <list-rado@xxxxxx>:
=- Jing Xue wrote on Wed 17.Oct'07 at 12:17:08 -0400 -=The point here is, people and groups of people operate vastly differently, often in ways that we never think of. So why should an MUA be so morally judgmental?If nobody does, where should moral come from? If somebody does, why is anyone more qualified than the other? If all are the same, why not the coder(s)?
Because coders are supposed to code solutions into a tool, not to code their ideology into it. (well as far as software tools are concerned)
I remember reading one of Linus Torvalds's posts to the kernel list about why the kernel should not actively refuse to load non-OSS modules. His point, and obviously I paraphrase, is that that would be imposing an ideology on people, and that would be bad, and actually quite an irony considering the ideology being imposed itself is all supposed to be about more freedom.
Diversity is fine, but can work for bad ends, too, think of spammers and TOFU posters. You can't technically avoid it (and sometimes it's even functionally required/ wanted), but you don't have to make it easy for the crowd to satisfy few legitimate uses.
In my book of "good and bad", requesting a mail receipt is nowhere remotely close to spamming/trashing. 8-)
Cheers. -- Jing Xue