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Re: Bug#23000: no way to force deliver over procmail



On Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 10:32:43PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > 2. Herbert claims to have _lost_ mail as a result of this.  I think
> > this is a serious complaint.  How come the mail was lost rather than
> > bounced ?
> 
> I never claimed that.  Please don't put words into my mouth.  The missing
> mails *probably* bounced, but I have no way of knowing that for sure.

---QUOTE---
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: control@bugs.debian.org, 23000@bugs.debian.org
Message-Id: <199806140359.NAA29648@gondor.apana.org.au>

reopen 23000
severity important
quit

This is crap.  I lost tons of mails due to this bug.
---ENDQUOTE---

You did indeed claim that.  Don't accuse people of putting words in your
math that really came from there.  You may be fully justified in stirring
up a shitstorm over this bug; I'd be pretty pissed if I lost mails, too,
regardless of the cause.  But rewriting history isn't going to get us
anywhere.

-- 
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Purdue University                   |  is to yield to it.
branden@purdue.edu                  |  -- Oscar Wilde
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