From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] re: spam filtering fs Message-ID: <20030904074249.M15496@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <019201c37213$72df7ca0$b9844051@insultant.net> <9121b85ec02fee5a2d80a8d629e5d0ae@plan9.bell-labs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <9121b85ec02fee5a2d80a8d629e5d0ae@plan9.bell-labs.com>; from David Presotto on Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:54:03PM -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 07:42:50 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2c5eb75c-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:54:03PM -0400, David Presotto wrote: > > We have a whole bunch of people here who each started writing an ASN.1 > compiler (or stub generator or whatever you call it), gathered up > the 4 feet worth of documentation, started writing YACC scripts, > and then said ``they can't possibly mean that, this is too much work, > I think I'll so something easy instead.'' Any leftovers that I may be able to use? ASN.1 (well, BER, anyway) looks like a one-off solution to a large number of problems in my unsophisticated view. It is overspecified, but that's ITU-T for you: specifications with no (easily identified) legal loopholes. All ASN.1 compilers I have ever heard mentioned are proprietary tools, having a Plan 9 "open source" version would be real asset. Not that I'm an authority on this, I seem to be working very much in a vacuum every time I consider any ITU-T offering. ++L PS: To be perfectly honest, I think Inferno/Limbo would be even more useful to develop mail processing tools and I wonder if forsyth and friends shouldn't be closely involved. Then we have stuff that will run on Windows, where it is much more necessary.