Re: Song of Programming

[Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>]

On Jul  3, 1999, Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> writes:
>> I'd really appreciate to have the fancy splitting patch I posted
>> installed in the next release, as well as the group-params based mail
>> splitting mechanism.  

> I'd like those kind of changes to have a longer alpha testing period,
> Errors in the mail splitting code can easily lead to lost mail, even
> in ways that aren't discovered for a while.

When there's an error in mail splitting, messages go to a `bogus', so
mail is not lost (as I've learned while implementing these changes).
Moreover, the changes are simple enough that I don't see much risk in
adopting them.  Anyway, I'm not the one to decide...  I'd be glad to
have *some* gnus version supporting this feature, even if not 5.8.0,
so that I don't have to keep maintaining a modified file locally.

But I've received enough positive feedback after posting this patch
that I think it would be worth having it in the next stable release.
This also indicates that I'm not the only one using it (but not that
it's been widely tested).  The only way to have it tested widely is to 
install it in some (alpha) release of gnus :-)

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