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Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty by specialist on Thursday October 18, 2018 @02:06PM (#18250608)
Huh. Very interesting. I have a notion that all decisions should auto expire and be explicitly renewed. Because it's so hard to cull outdated or revisit / repair suboptimal rules. Inspired by stuff like IP/TCP leases and cache TTL.

But your example of the powers that be waving thru a bad rule refresh suggests my notion won't be sufficient.

Thoughts?

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Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty by baybal2 on Thursday October 18, 2018 @02:38PM (#18250938)
Well, the process did exactly what it was required to do, to classify countries by income levels. China is not that rich, not even passing as a newly industrialised country.

Were it to pass as such, say, Kenya and many other African countries would've too.

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