Re: my 'dated' address (was Re: Quimby Upgrade)

[Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>]

* prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)  on Fri, 27 Apr 2001
| Well, if you don't want automatic removal of bouncing addresses, you
| can avoid using the program that gives you that feature - and if you
| don't want that program to be given to you by default, you can avoid
| using the program that exhibits that default.  Such are the benefits
| of good factoring.

It is the philosophy behind destructive fixes being default behaviour that
is bad.  It is like a version of fsck that deletes damaged files outright
instead of putting them in the lost+found directory.  Human intervention
should always be required when destructive fixes are in effect, even if
that intervention is as simple as the human switching it on and forgetting
about it.

[...]
| Well, some use Emacs without Gnus, and some use qmail without ezmlm.  It
| doesn't work the other way, of course, but a real or perceived weakness
| in Gnus or ezmlm shouldn't discourage one from using Emacs or qmail.

qmail has the same flaws as ezmlm: bad default behaviour.

| There are other mail readers that can be used with Emacs; there are other
| MLMs that can be used with qmail; there are reasons to use Emacs and
| qmail other than reading mail and serving mailing lists.

Name one other list manager that works as well with qmail as Majordomo with
sendmail or Postfix.  It certainly isn't Mj; qmail hates it.
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