This was not about the now redacted message. Bron replied to me off-list. I replied in my typical fashion. They posted an on-list reply that was potentially misleading, so I sought to correct the record.
On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 12:28 PM Nathanael Ritz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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