By the same token, form liberates.  A political columnist (or blogger) has it easy compared to a columnist with the same deadlines who has to write about "something interesting".  No day passes without its political issues to write about, but having to find a new topic every day to keep a diverse readership interested is no trivial demand.  (I forget who said this.)

Indeed, the fluidity, ease, and grace of this conversation would be impossible without standards, a dozen of them at least:  TCP/IP, various router procotols, DNS, SMTP, POP and/or IMAP and/or HTTP, RFC 5322 (formerly 822) headers, MIME, Unicode, HTML, and even Standard English.

Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.