Bug#71657: ITP: ricochet -- automated agent for tracing and reporting internet junk mail

[Robert van der Meulen <rvdm@cistron.nl>]

Hi,

Quoting Doug Porter (dsp@debian.org):
> > Predictable temporary filenames (static ones, even - so
> > multi-user usage can be a problem), hardcoded formats for whois
> > replies, that don't work correctly with a lot of referred
> > queries, undocumented - and afaik the Net::Whois module has
> > been updated to behave similarly a while ago.
> Eww.  Assuming I get sufficiently bored at some point this
> weekend I can go through and move it all towards mkstemp() and
> cleanup the other issues later on.
Don't worry too much; my XWhois has been installed ages ago, and hasn't been
updated since. I saw a 'new' version from march this year, maybe things have
been cleaned up a bit.

> > But we could share ofcourse, you do libnet-xwhois-perl, and i
> > do ricochet?  :)
> I guess it is a deal.  Sure feels like I got the short end of the
> stick. ;P
:) Well, 'ricochet' needs lots of work too; global configuration (for the
skip-list etc), a nice debconf thing to configure stuff in - and i want to
be as sure as possible things are _very_ clear to the user; it's easy to
generate wrong spamreports with ricochet, and even easier to send them to
exactly the wrong people ;)

Greets,
	Robert

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