I thought the same thing (minuscule market share), until I saw that in Q4 2007, the iPhone had a 30% market share of smartphones.
It's since dropped, but I have no idea what's happened since the 3G model came out. Point is...it's not remotely minuscule; they're second or third.
The other point: the market is pretty diversified between Palm, Windows Smartphones, Palm OS, Symbian, and others (like the Sidekick, running Hiptop OS.) If several companies colluded and blocked Opera, THAT would be an anti-trust action.
You'll discover with big lines that the providers have a good level of things they have to do for you. The bigger the line, the more they are bound by. IF they pull shit like that, well it's something that can get them hit with a large suit in court. They don't get to just cut things off if they are annoyed with you.
What the fuck? You got modded 4, Insightful, for ignoring a key part: the dude saying he'd call up his ISP and demand they shut off his line?!
Google announced that it was looking for ways for its search engine to index HTML forms such as drop-down boxes or select menus that otherwise couldn't be found or indexed."
Great. So basically, it's going to fuss with forms and pretend to be a user clicking "submit". That seems like a BRILLIANT idea, because, naturally, every HTML form out there is used purely for navigation...
If people want their sites to be indexed, they shouldn't use forms for navigation. It's not rocket science.
I thought I was buying a DIA circuit - as in Direct Internet Access - but apparently you don't exactly do that. That's a breach of contract - that's a violation of your SLA - I want out of my contract now
Sprint's reply: "Okay *flip*. Call us when you realize that getting a T1/T3 takes weeks. By the way, we charge a $1000 installation fee."
...at least, the version we used did. Sample problems, just off the top of my head were incompatibilities with Safari, and moronic account "management".
Despite clear evidence that Safari does auth just fine, Twiki wouldn't let any of our Safari users view pages without presenting them with TWO auth requests, and the developers blamed Apple and refused to release a fix into code.
A "reset my password" form would (are you ready?) email the wiki maintainer with a request to reset that user's password.
While it's fast and has a simple file-based structure, it's also one of the worst web apps I've ever seen.
Arduinio is open source, anyone can make them and they released all the files. just check the site you'll see all the downloads, if you can't find them email me
Really? Better tell the Freeduino people, because apparently they've been wasting all their time.
I almost forgot: MAKE is for retarded emo-glasses wearing hipster shitheads who think they're 'hackers' for picking up a soldering iron.
You mis-spelled Polygraph. Slightly more important, given that, unlike E-meters, polygraphs are used in criminal investigations and employment decisions (namely, government security services) and police and prosecutors often try to get the results admitted in court as evidence.
Remember Ashley Todd, who claimed she was mugged and had a "B" cut into her face by an imaginary black dude? Cops gave her a polygraph test, but refused to release the results. Hmm, like maybe a "she's telling the truth" result, that would very publicly demonstrate what a piece of useless crap polygraphs are?
Anybody? I'd think that the personal data of just about any news figure is combed over. This is certainly unfortunate but hardly surprising.
So, this may come as a shock to the average Slashdotter, but when your name is mentioned on national TV, you tend to get pretty famous pretty fast with the press, and they (and the nutjobs) come out of the woodwork. Start parking their satellite ENG trucks on people's lawns, knocking on his door at all hours of the night trying to get interviews, pissing off the neighbors with bright lights at 11PM in the evening, etc. Seriously- if you've ever been around news media, especially TV news media, they act like they own the fucking place no matter where they go. They don't give a damn about anything except putting up a pretty moving picture for the viewers at home.
Maybe, just maybe, the cops looked up his address so that they could send a detail over in ADVANCE of the ensuing chaos to try and manage it, and protect him and his neighbors.
and it's a true free/open source design, so they don't have a monopoly on it and you can buy compatible boards from other sources or DIY!
Actually, it's not an open-source design; Arduino is an actively protected trademark and they do control who manufactures it, because they won't release the files necessary to manufacture the circuit board. Without them, you cannot (easily) make a compatible board; you have to reverse-engineer it. Which is precisely what some people, fed up with not being able to make their own Arduino boards, went and did.
Freeduino, *is* actually free and open-source (and compatible) and they have specifically said that people are welcome to use the Freeduino name.
All Arduino proves is that people will slap "free" and "open source" on just about anything, and there's no shortage of people who will parrot it.
Also, I'm getting really fucking tired of LadyAda's antisocial, illegal devices. Her "TV-b-gone" redefines arrogance, and the jammers are *completely* illegal (funny how you all will get ripshit about data-over-powerlines interfering with your precious HAM hobby, but this device is completely ok?) Wouldn't be the first time she's gotten in trouble with 'the law'- when she was at MIT, she put a device in a parking garage which MIT campus police (used to dealing with all sorts of weird projects and devices) treated as a bomb, and she was punished by the dean for it.
Check out this story where Neil Gaiman tries to buy one [neilgaiman.com]. Indeed it literally doesn't seem to be selling. As in: you cannot obtain one even if you wanted to.
He was turned away because the vendor was in an area where TMobile decided there wasn't strong enough coverage.
Yes, he's able to fire up Gmail in the store, but that doesn't mean coverage is good enough for their metrics, or the G1 might have a worse antenna. Or maybe Google said "we don't want you to sell this phone where people won't be able to get adequate speed."
Company decides where to market phone for best reception, film at 11.
I don't care how good the phone is. T-Mobile's coverage is too sparse to make it attractive.
Why, because the funny Verizon actor on the TV set said it was so?
You do realize that all the GSM providers in the US share a good chunk of their towers?
My favorite: the idiots who say "ohmygod, I had an AT&T phone and coverage sucked, I switched to Tmobile and it was SO much better!" SAME. FREAKING. "NETWORK."
Wait wait, let me guess. You have a sample-size-of-one example of how coverage is so much better in ___insert remote location you've been to____ compared to your friend with a different phone. Or there's a deadspot in so-and-so's apartment but not for your provider, etc.
Guess what. Do you have any clue how interchangeable those conversations are? And that "bars" are almost completely picked out of (pardon the pun) thin air?
Probably because T-Mobile and Google don't have the Apple hype-machine/blogosphere/rumor sites going insane over unreleased products?
Er...or it could be that the G1 just isn't innovative or unique.
Seriously, what's unique about it?
An exciting new technology for distributing certified applications for your mobile phone? WOW! That's new, I stand corre...Oh, here's Mr. iPhone and his friend the iTunes App Store.
Gmail on your phone? Every other smartphone does that, including my Jesusphone and a bazillion blackberries.
Google Ma...yes, there too.
Push/pull e-ma...yeah, everyone does that.
Yout...oops, the iPhone has that too!
A spiffy touch-sensitive-glass surface? No, it's a stylus interface. Hi, Palm called, said 2000 called and wants its smartphone back.
Open source operating system, WOO HOO! Oh wait, 2001 called and said Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Psion would like Symbian back.
Apple slowly wedged their foot in the door with iTunes and Quicktime and has built upon each success. Meanwhile, Google has been the 500lb gorilla, but given away every product they offer (and made it work on every other cell phone) and there's no compelling reason to buy a Google phone.
Good luck- they're all checked out for the election cycle and any time they do spend will be concerning stuffing their local pork into "stimulus" and bailout packages, instead of appropriate-for-federal-level legislation like this.
DDT does not build up in animal tissue. DDT is not harmful to humans. DDT would save tons of lives.
This is the most ignorant spew I've read on slashdot in years. Go read the Wikipedia article.
It accumulates in fatty tissue. It's found in the tissue of many adults today- despite having been banned FORTY YEARS AGO. That say something to you, asshole? Second: studies found proof that DDT and derivatives cause diabetes. Notice when diabetes became a big problem? Mmmm hmm, the last fifty or so years.
Yes. In your organization how many times have your servers went down or had a problem... Compare that to Google Mail... You will probably find that there is a lot less downtime.
Bullshit- this is an often-repeated myth that small or medium-sized IT shops can't offer competitive uptimes. It's simply not true- I'm a sole sysadmin, and my server (~200 users) has only had one time when we had an outage , and it took us all of about 15 minutes to fix. We have a number of people who choose to use GMail, and I'm constantly reminding them that they should not be relying on Gmail so much.
The problem is not downtime- it's lack of any way to mitigate the problems, and a complete and total lack of any customer service from Google. There is NOBODY you can call when there's a problem. PERIOD.
Compare and contrast. Google:
If Google hoses someone's account, they're completely fucked. Google will shrug and say "meh, whaddya gonna do?", and point to their user agreement.
If someone breaks into their account or changes the password, they're completely fucked. Google won't block access, can't prove who is who, getting logs will be a slow fight to the death, etc.
If the user deletes a bunch of mail (or someone else does) or there's a bug with their email client (ie if they're using IMAP or POP access), they're completely fucked. Google won't do a restore. Their backups (if they even have any) are for "oh shit" system-wide fuckups (like, I'm guessing, the current one- I bet the accounts got deleted and they're restoring from backups.)
Me:
If we hose someone's account, they need only wait about 15 minutes for the tapes in the jukebox to shuffle and we've got their entire account back from less than 24 hours ago. If I refuse or cannot, I'm pretty much out of a job.
If someone breaks into their account or changes the password, I can lock the account in seconds, and I've got logs for forensics I can hand over immediately to the university police. Again, my paycheck is close to these people.
If they delete a bunch of mail (or someone else does) or there's a bug with their email client (ie if they're using IMAP or POP access), again, they need only wait for the jukebox to shuffle tapes around. It's a few minutes of my time and perhaps a trip to the server room to feed the jukebox some tapes.
If we have a crash, or a hacker breaks in, etc- we tell people what happened and we get the hairy eyeball from the administration. If Google hoses your account, you're told they had a 'service outage' or 'technical problem', and that's that.
The building I (and the server) are in in could burn to the ground, and I could have us back up in less time than this stupid outage at Google (I'm factoring the time to find/buy two commodity PCs, find/buy compatible tape drive/SCSI card, do an OS install, install the backup server, and fetch the off-site backups from across campus.)
If Google's datacenter burns to the ground, how long do you think you'll be without your GMail account?
You forgot to mention one important tidbit: she's running messages for "the criminal underworld".
A videogame like that only further solidify in people's minds the "you must have something to hide" myth. It would be admirable if she was running messages for everyday people who don't want the government reading their crap, but that's not as "sexy."
Nope, the Air used yet another adapter. The new Air is unified with the MBP. I wouldn't complain at this "simplification", if it wasn't for the fact that MBPs outnumber Airs at least 10:1.
Despite all this we're-environmental crap, it's worse off, because it requires enormous amounts of electricity to make the larger quantity of aluminum, it requires more electricity to machine it, and the vast majority of material is milled right off. The scrap needs to be heated up and melted down AGAIN to "recycle" it. Since they're made in China, the electricity for that is coming directly from coal.
Still ExpressCard/34, which is useless for many things, particularly CompactFlash readers used by pro photographers.
Huge black border around the screen, which is wasted space.
#$@$!ing annoying square, flat keys from the Macbook, and they're black. Am I the only one who thinks it looks incredibly ugly?
Glossy screen only. To which Phil said, "You offset the reflection by the brightness, and consumers love it. One of the great things about a notebook is you can turn it however you want!" No, douchebag, we HATE the glossy screen, and you've still got to SIT SOMEWHERE with it, and turning up the brightness requires more battery power. Apparently Phil has never tried using one of the glossy screens with something bright behind him. There's a reason almost every TV and computer monitor on the planet has a matte screen.
Yet another video adapter. We've got a BIN full of these things for when people need to use a projector. Here's another one, for absolutely no particular good reason.
Security slot in FRONT of the side-mounted DVD drive. Great. So if you want to lock your laptop up, you've got this big cable blocking the drive, and if you eject a CD, it'll eject into the cable. And probably break the drive. Why couldn't it go in the corner?
Given that you're talking about satisfying your base load with 2 servers and you can buy pretty decent 1U rackmount machines for $1-2k each....a)have cash on hand to buy that extra capacity b)have a vendor who can supply the equipment quickly c)tell your colo that you anticipate growing (so please don't put you in a rack where there's no room nearby, or if they can't do that, that you'll need some sort of wiring or VLANs), and d)have some sort of plan to quickly deploy the host O/S and app software.
Oh yeah...and e)don't build your app with crap like Ruby/mongrel.
Still, Judge Davis' decision does not derail the RIAA's case against Thomas on retrial or any other pending or future case. Davis ruled that the downloads from Thomas' open share folder that RIAA investigators made, 24 in all, "can form the basis of an infringment claim."
The judge in Jammie Thomas' challenge to her landmark $220,000 fine for sharing music over KaZaa has declared a mistrial, forcing yet another court case.
I don't expect Joe Blo's blog to get this right, but I do expect ZDNet and Slashdot to.
It might sound like a grass-roots scheme, and maybe it is, but those roots include such patent behemoths as IBM.
The patent system is quickly becoming a joke, and if that happens, IBM's patent portfolio is devalued. They also don't want to have to fight frivolous patents, so it's win-win for them. Plus, they've already helped themselves to the patent banquet to the point of morbid obesity. It's easy to shout "no more caviar!" at the party when your plate and belly are full.
Everyone wants 'opportunity for all'...until they've had theirs. Immigration and import policies the world over are also a great example of this.
The "flowery" thank-you follow-ups you speak of are actually the norm, not vise-versa. On the Sun Managers list, it was EXPECTED that you post a follow-up to your question, explaining what responses you received, what was correct, what you learned, and who to acknowledge for responding and providing correct solutions. It's the de-facto standard on other lists I'm on, though not to as great a degree. It's a user community, not a help-desk queue.
Victor thinks he's so important that he can demand people not extend the courtesy of saying thank you in exactly the way he wants it, because it wastes his precision brainpower and precious seconds to have to read the message body to see whether to hit the "delete" key. If that's not unbridled arrogance, I don't know what is. I'd be willing to bet he doesn't even do that- I bet he's got a rule that deletes any message with "thank you" in the subject.
The funny thing is, I've seen a couple of Postfix-users posters specifically go out of their way to thank him, not put "thank you" in the subject line, AND cc the list. It's delicious.
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Seriously, do you think there's an omnipotent magical being that reads slashdot tags?
I thought the same thing (minuscule market share), until I saw that in Q4 2007, the iPhone had a 30% market share of smartphones.
It's since dropped, but I have no idea what's happened since the 3G model came out. Point is...it's not remotely minuscule; they're second or third.
The other point: the market is pretty diversified between Palm, Windows Smartphones, Palm OS, Symbian, and others (like the Sidekick, running Hiptop OS.) If several companies colluded and blocked Opera, THAT would be an anti-trust action.
Antitrust lawsuit, anybody?
Jesus, no. Please go read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law
You'll discover with big lines that the providers have a good level of things they have to do for you. The bigger the line, the more they are bound by. IF they pull shit like that, well it's something that can get them hit with a large suit in court. They don't get to just cut things off if they are annoyed with you.
What the fuck? You got modded 4, Insightful, for ignoring a key part: the dude saying he'd call up his ISP and demand they shut off his line?!
Google announced that it was looking for ways for its search engine to index HTML forms such as drop-down boxes or select menus that otherwise couldn't be found or indexed."
Great. So basically, it's going to fuss with forms and pretend to be a user clicking "submit". That seems like a BRILLIANT idea, because, naturally, every HTML form out there is used purely for navigation...
If people want their sites to be indexed, they shouldn't use forms for navigation. It's not rocket science.
I thought I was buying a DIA circuit - as in Direct Internet Access - but apparently you don't exactly do that. That's a breach of contract - that's a violation of your SLA - I want out of my contract now
Sprint's reply: "Okay *flip*. Call us when you realize that getting a T1/T3 takes weeks. By the way, we charge a $1000 installation fee."
Despite clear evidence that Safari does auth just fine, Twiki wouldn't let any of our Safari users view pages without presenting them with TWO auth requests, and the developers blamed Apple and refused to release a fix into code.
A "reset my password" form would (are you ready?) email the wiki maintainer with a request to reset that user's password.
While it's fast and has a simple file-based structure, it's also one of the worst web apps I've ever seen.
n/t.
Arduinio is open source, anyone can make them and they released all the files. just check the site you'll see all the downloads, if you can't find them email me
Really? Better tell the Freeduino people, because apparently they've been wasting all their time.
I almost forgot: MAKE is for retarded emo-glasses wearing hipster shitheads who think they're 'hackers' for picking up a soldering iron.
E-meter [wikipedia.org] comes to mind.
You mis-spelled Polygraph. Slightly more important, given that, unlike E-meters, polygraphs are used in criminal investigations and employment decisions (namely, government security services) and police and prosecutors often try to get the results admitted in court as evidence.
Remember Ashley Todd, who claimed she was mugged and had a "B" cut into her face by an imaginary black dude? Cops gave her a polygraph test, but refused to release the results. Hmm, like maybe a "she's telling the truth" result, that would very publicly demonstrate what a piece of useless crap polygraphs are?
Anybody? I'd think that the personal data of just about any news figure is combed over. This is certainly unfortunate but hardly surprising.
So, this may come as a shock to the average Slashdotter, but when your name is mentioned on national TV, you tend to get pretty famous pretty fast with the press, and they (and the nutjobs) come out of the woodwork. Start parking their satellite ENG trucks on people's lawns, knocking on his door at all hours of the night trying to get interviews, pissing off the neighbors with bright lights at 11PM in the evening, etc. Seriously- if you've ever been around news media, especially TV news media, they act like they own the fucking place no matter where they go. They don't give a damn about anything except putting up a pretty moving picture for the viewers at home.
Maybe, just maybe, the cops looked up his address so that they could send a detail over in ADVANCE of the ensuing chaos to try and manage it, and protect him and his neighbors.
and it's a true free/open source design, so they don't have a monopoly on it and you can buy compatible boards from other sources or DIY!
Actually, it's not an open-source design; Arduino is an actively protected trademark and they do control who manufactures it, because they won't release the files necessary to manufacture the circuit board. Without them, you cannot (easily) make a compatible board; you have to reverse-engineer it. Which is precisely what some people, fed up with not being able to make their own Arduino boards, went and did.
Freeduino, *is* actually free and open-source (and compatible) and they have specifically said that people are welcome to use the Freeduino name.
All Arduino proves is that people will slap "free" and "open source" on just about anything, and there's no shortage of people who will parrot it.
Also, I'm getting really fucking tired of LadyAda's antisocial, illegal devices. Her "TV-b-gone" redefines arrogance, and the jammers are *completely* illegal (funny how you all will get ripshit about data-over-powerlines interfering with your precious HAM hobby, but this device is completely ok?) Wouldn't be the first time she's gotten in trouble with 'the law'- when she was at MIT, she put a device in a parking garage which MIT campus police (used to dealing with all sorts of weird projects and devices) treated as a bomb, and she was punished by the dean for it.
Check out this story where Neil Gaiman tries to buy one [neilgaiman.com]. Indeed it literally doesn't seem to be selling. As in: you cannot obtain one even if you wanted to.
He was turned away because the vendor was in an area where TMobile decided there wasn't strong enough coverage.
Yes, he's able to fire up Gmail in the store, but that doesn't mean coverage is good enough for their metrics, or the G1 might have a worse antenna. Or maybe Google said "we don't want you to sell this phone where people won't be able to get adequate speed."
Company decides where to market phone for best reception, film at 11.
I don't care how good the phone is. T-Mobile's coverage is too sparse to make it attractive.
Why, because the funny Verizon actor on the TV set said it was so?
You do realize that all the GSM providers in the US share a good chunk of their towers?
My favorite: the idiots who say "ohmygod, I had an AT&T phone and coverage sucked, I switched to Tmobile and it was SO much better!" SAME. FREAKING. "NETWORK."
Wait wait, let me guess. You have a sample-size-of-one example of how coverage is so much better in ___insert remote location you've been to____ compared to your friend with a different phone. Or there's a deadspot in so-and-so's apartment but not for your provider, etc.
Guess what. Do you have any clue how interchangeable those conversations are? And that "bars" are almost completely picked out of (pardon the pun) thin air?
Probably because T-Mobile and Google don't have the Apple hype-machine/blogosphere/rumor sites going insane over unreleased products?
Er...or it could be that the G1 just isn't innovative or unique.
Seriously, what's unique about it?
Apple slowly wedged their foot in the door with iTunes and Quicktime and has built upon each success. Meanwhile, Google has been the 500lb gorilla, but given away every product they offer (and made it work on every other cell phone) and there's no compelling reason to buy a Google phone.
...and ask them to reintroduce this.
Good luck- they're all checked out for the election cycle and any time they do spend will be concerning stuffing their local pork into "stimulus" and bailout packages, instead of appropriate-for-federal-level legislation like this.
DDT does not build up in animal tissue. DDT is not harmful to humans. DDT would save tons of lives.
This is the most ignorant spew I've read on slashdot in years. Go read the Wikipedia article.
It accumulates in fatty tissue. It's found in the tissue of many adults today- despite having been banned FORTY YEARS AGO. That say something to you, asshole? Second: studies found proof that DDT and derivatives cause diabetes. Notice when diabetes became a big problem? Mmmm hmm, the last fifty or so years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Effects_on_human_health
Read the PAGES of studies showing all sorts of health effects.
Yes. In your organization how many times have your servers went down or had a problem... Compare that to Google Mail... You will probably find that there is a lot less downtime.
Bullshit- this is an often-repeated myth that small or medium-sized IT shops can't offer competitive uptimes. It's simply not true- I'm a sole sysadmin, and my server (~200 users) has only had one time when we had an outage , and it took us all of about 15 minutes to fix. We have a number of people who choose to use GMail, and I'm constantly reminding them that they should not be relying on Gmail so much.
The problem is not downtime- it's lack of any way to mitigate the problems, and a complete and total lack of any customer service from Google. There is NOBODY you can call when there's a problem. PERIOD.
Compare and contrast. Google:
Me:
The building I (and the server) are in in could burn to the ground, and I could have us back up in less time than this stupid outage at Google (I'm factoring the time to find/buy two commodity PCs, find/buy compatible tape drive/SCSI card, do an OS install, install the backup server, and fetch the off-site backups from across campus.)
If Google's datacenter burns to the ground, how long do you think you'll be without your GMail account?
You forgot to mention one important tidbit: she's running messages for "the criminal underworld".
A videogame like that only further solidify in people's minds the "you must have something to hide" myth. It would be admirable if she was running messages for everyday people who don't want the government reading their crap, but that's not as "sexy."
Didn't they already use this one in the Air?
Nope, the Air used yet another adapter. The new Air is unified with the MBP. I wouldn't complain at this "simplification", if it wasn't for the fact that MBPs outnumber Airs at least 10:1.
Failtastic in so many ways:
Given that you're talking about satisfying your base load with 2 servers and you can buy pretty decent 1U rackmount machines for $1-2k each....a)have cash on hand to buy that extra capacity b)have a vendor who can supply the equipment quickly c)tell your colo that you anticipate growing (so please don't put you in a rack where there's no room nearby, or if they can't do that, that you'll need some sort of wiring or VLANs), and d)have some sort of plan to quickly deploy the host O/S and app software. Oh yeah...and e)don't build your app with crap like Ruby/mongrel.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/not-for-publica.html
Still, Judge Davis' decision does not derail the RIAA's case against Thomas on retrial or any other pending or future case. Davis ruled that the downloads from Thomas' open share folder that RIAA investigators made, 24 in all, "can form the basis of an infringment claim."
Or how about http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/25/jammie_thomas_again/
The judge in Jammie Thomas' challenge to her landmark $220,000 fine for sharing music over KaZaa has declared a mistrial, forcing yet another court case.
I don't expect Joe Blo's blog to get this right, but I do expect ZDNet and Slashdot to.
It might sound like a grass-roots scheme, and maybe it is, but those roots include such patent behemoths as IBM.
The patent system is quickly becoming a joke, and if that happens, IBM's patent portfolio is devalued. They also don't want to have to fight frivolous patents, so it's win-win for them. Plus, they've already helped themselves to the patent banquet to the point of morbid obesity. It's easy to shout "no more caviar!" at the party when your plate and belly are full.
Everyone wants 'opportunity for all'...until they've had theirs. Immigration and import policies the world over are also a great example of this.
The "flowery" thank-you follow-ups you speak of are actually the norm, not vise-versa. On the Sun Managers list, it was EXPECTED that you post a follow-up to your question, explaining what responses you received, what was correct, what you learned, and who to acknowledge for responding and providing correct solutions. It's the de-facto standard on other lists I'm on, though not to as great a degree. It's a user community, not a help-desk queue.
Victor thinks he's so important that he can demand people not extend the courtesy of saying thank you in exactly the way he wants it, because it wastes his precision brainpower and precious seconds to have to read the message body to see whether to hit the "delete" key. If that's not unbridled arrogance, I don't know what is. I'd be willing to bet he doesn't even do that- I bet he's got a rule that deletes any message with "thank you" in the subject.
The funny thing is, I've seen a couple of Postfix-users posters specifically go out of their way to thank him, not put "thank you" in the subject line, AND cc the list. It's delicious.