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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:03:09 +0100
From: Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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> None of the above, I write embedded code, my employer has a clear enough
> vision to allow me to use whatever OS I like, provided I get the job in
> hand done, which I clearly do.

You have a _very_ flexible employer there.

> I'am afraid I am not willing to discuss the details of my job with you,
> however I find writing code using plan9 and the plan9 environment makes =
my
> life much easier and allows me to get my job done; present chatter
> excepted.

You needn't discuss anything, except how Plan 9 makes you life easier than=20
FreeBSD would. You could even drop that. Even responding to my first post=20
was an act of volition, I reckon.

> I'am not sure which test you wanted to perform, but your email arrived
> here OK (Via plan9's smtpd and upas/fs), the Hebrew appears intact though
> I don't speak the language so I cannot tell if it is correct. I have
> quoted it back to you to see if it passes the return path OK.

It seems fine here. Both Hebrew and Arabic. I presume the Plan 9 smtpd is=20
running at quintile.net and not even bothering to identify itself as "ESMTP =

(something)" because after quintile.net the path goes through Exim and then =

Google's machinery.

Now, could you have input that text? Relaying mail as it is isn't really a=20
feat, you know. That's the _minimum_ expected from an MTA.

> I would love to discuss more, but I have work to do (using plan9, but not
> on plan9).

Reading your postings is always a pleasure. Do me the favor more often :-)

--On Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:01 AM +0100 Steve Simon=20
<steve@quintile.net> wrote:

>> 1. Maintaining a Plan 9 system?
>> 2. Programming a Plan 9 system?
>> 3. Researching a Plan 9 system?
>> 4. Or you got some job other than jobs created _around_ Plan 9 and you
>> use  Plan 9?
>
> None of the above, I write embedded code, my employer has a clear enough
> vision to allow me to use whatever OS I like, provided I get the job in
> hand done, which I clearly do.
>
> I'am afraid I am not willing to discuss the details of my job with you,
> however I find writing code using plan9 and the plan9 environment makes =
my
> life much easier and allows me to get my job done; present chatter
> excepted.
>
>> Do me a favor. Fire up your beloved upas, use mail, and relay one email
>> through upas/smtpd to smtp.gmail.com:587 with the words =
"=D7=A9=D6=B8=D7=81=D7=9C=D7=95=D6=B9=D7=9D
>> =D7=A2=D6=B2=D7=9C=D6=B5=D7=99=D7=9B=D6=B6=D7=9D" (Hebrew, Shalom =
aleichem) or "=D8=B3=D9=84=D8=A7=D9=85 =D8=B9=D9=84=DB=8C=DA=A9=D9=85"
>> (Arabic, Salam-on alaikom) to my address.
>
> I'am not sure which test you wanted to perform, but your email arrived
> here OK (Via plan9's smtpd and upas/fs), the Hebrew appears intact though
> I don't speak the language so I cannot tell if it is correct. I have
> quoted it back to you to see if it passes the return path OK.
>
> I would love to discuss more, but I have work to do (using plan9, but not
> on plan9).
>
> -Steve
>