[r6rs-discuss] an essay on language design

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:10:10 -0400

Anton van Straaten scripsit:

> [*] Apparently based on the belief that mailing lists should be designed
> not to allow piling word on top of word, but to impose restrictions that
> make the use of additional words impossible.

Based on the fact that people attempt denial of service by sending
megabytes (in these days, perhaps even larger powers of ten) of
garbage to mailing lists.

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