<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The best use you could make of your time would be to let this absurd argument drop.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 18, 2017, at 11:24 AM, Ryan Sleevi <<a href="mailto:sleevi@google.com" class="">sleevi@google.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:20 AM, philliph--- via Public <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:public@cabforum.org" target="_blank" class="">public@cabforum.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">'<span style="font-family:ArialMT;font-size:11pt" class="">Votes not submitted to the Public Mail...</span><font face="ArialMT" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666984558105px" class="">’</span></font><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If we are going to be hyper pedantic about this, nobody disputes that the vote was submitted to the Public Mail list. It is therefore a valid vote.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes, multiple people do. Because you're ignoring both the surrounding paragraph and the Bylaws.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Would you like me to provide you a full analysis about how this approach is factually incorrect?</div><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class="">If we are to be hyper pedantic, let us consider the precise meaning of RFC 5821, section 3.3 in which the process of submitting a message is described.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Did Microsoft execute a MAIL command?</div><div class=""><div class="">Did Microsoft execute a RCPT command?</div></div><div class="">Did Microsoft execute a DATA command?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The answer to these is yes and thus Microsoft completed all the necessary steps for submission of the vote. The failure to forward the vote to the list subscribers was due entirely to the configuration of the mail system, a factor over which Microsoft had not control. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thus, according to the bylaws, the vote is valid and shall be counted.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is perhaps the most useful new argument, but fails to address any of the broader concerns.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To make best use of my time, can you clarify: Have you read the entire Bylaws before making this argument? Have you read the concerns to date? Would it be useful for your further discussion to point out the many ways in which your position is at conflict with them? </div></div><br class=""></div></div>
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