Dear Soatok, Respectfully, as someone of absolutely no party, I interpreted the [now redacted] message to communicate something considerably less charitably than to suggest “I understand your decision. No hard feelings on my end.”
Written language can be ambiguous at the best of times. As I said, I claim no party in this, being very new to the contested matter at hand. And from that perspective, the message as you’ve described it would suggest to someone like myself that the considerable effort apparent in the original email you replied to “may not deserve anything more than a cute PNG without further context necessary”, or that is to say your message indicated a demonstrated lack of respect for the effort demonstrated by the author. Sincerely yours, Nathanael On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 9:33 AM Soatok Dreamseeker <[email protected]> wrote: > Bron, > > Respectfully, the image I responded with was a PNG image, not a GIF. In > addition to the file format being incorrect, there was no animation. > > For transparency, the PNG I replied was one of my Telegram stickers: > > [image: Soatok_STICKERPACK-HUG.png] > > Replying with a "hug?" sticker is a shorthand for "I understand your > decision. No hard feelings on my end." > > If you would characterize this response as "the worst in people", I'm > genuinely confused about how you reached that conclusion. If you would not > characterize it that way, then I would appreciate you not trying to > mischaracterize my responses or mislead people who were not a party to my > message. > > On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 11:22 AM Bron Gondwana <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> FWIW I contacted the author of the message directly and asked them to not >> do such things again, and got a single GIF as a response, so. Yeah. This >> topic does seem to bring out the worst in people. >> >> Bron. >> >> On Tue, May 19, 2026, at 10:37, Deb Cooley wrote: >> >> This is an official warning to Soatok Dreamseeker per RFC 3934 Section 2 >> [0], regarding the message sent in reply to >> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/YuPYdAeSRJkSkfPZsVxGtbLwAb4/ >> (also sent to the last-call list). The content of this message is >> disruptive to both the TLS working group progress and IETF Last Call >> progress. >> >> In addition to this warning, the message will be hidden from the mail >> archive for TLS and last-call. >> >> Deb Cooley >> Security AD >> >> [0] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3934.html#section-2 >> -- >> last-call mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >> >> -- >> Bron Gondwana, CEO, Fastmail Pty Ltd / Fastmail US LLC >> [email protected] >> >> >> -- > last-call mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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