Re: Intent to package barrendero-1.0
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Santiago Vila wrote:
> I'm a little bit amazed.
>
> In some way, the purpose of this package is to produce "data loss".
> The bug system says a "data loss" is a grave bug.
> Are you sure this is interesting enough to be packaged?
By that reasoning, rbl'ing spam into the bit-bucket is a "grave bug". :)
Check out the page. Apparently this package is aimed at solving a
specific problem at universities, where infrequently checked accounts
accumulate new mail forever, and when quotas are reached, *new* mail
starts getting lost. Barrendero helps those lazy users out by expiring
old mail instead (and not without warning them first).
But I must say, I do think this is a case of "accomodation for failure".
Instead, users should be educated about reading their email on a regular
basis.
<BOFH>
If they're not going to maintain their accounts, rm their spooled mail
completely and disable their accounts.
</BOFH>
Ben
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