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):
> I didn't really look into xwhois module past just installing it.
> I figured I would end up ITP'ing a libnet-xwhois-perl package to
> satisy the dependency, but I didn't think it would be much of a
> problem.  It is slightly unnerving that the author appears to use
> root as his primary login and that the changelog shows he likes
> blank cvs commits...  What did you find particularly troubling
> when you looked at the code?
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.

But we could share ofcourse, you do libnet-xwhois-perl, and i do ricochet?
:)

Greets,
	Robert
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