On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 07:10:04PM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote: > I would only point out that "the fetchmail maintainers" are no less > than one individual, Eric S. Raymond; I think he would take > considerable exception to your comparison. He probably would. I'll acknowledge that the last few paragraphs of my bug report, when I started getting away from the purely technical part, became less than completely professional. I have to admit to a considerable amount of incredulity at how this bug managed to creep in, though. It's not like this was some moronic mistake like, oh, say, a missing case terminator in a Bourne shell script. This was a deliberate decision that was documented as a *feature*. I always understood it as a cardinal rule of Internet mail that you just don't screw with mail message bodies that are 7-bit clean. Ever. > Where problems with the RFCs have been pointed out to him, Eric has > fixed them (as opposed to Microsoft et al. who at their best will > write their own document mentioning the bug and then claim that the > resulting document is an Open Standard to be emulated by everyone). I do have a lot more confidence that this bug will be fixed than I would if fetchmail were a Microsoft product. I take the sanctity of email personally, perhaps to an irrational extent, and that colors my language when I feel it has been violated. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's theology is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | belly laugh. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Robert Heinlein cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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