From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
Subject: Re: mx.gnus.org being very strict
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 10:48:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rjad0oy3we.fsf@sheridan.dina.kvl.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3smeh1d1t.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> If you are a gateway, you should probably just be as transparent as you
>> can...
>
> Garbage in - Garbage out principle?
Yes. Gateways should just pass bytes along, not try to be smart about
it.
> No thanks, we've had enough of that.
We haven't had nearly enough of that. All the fucking mess we went
through until we reached the current fragile and complex state of
sometimes-working i18n in mail, is due to the utter incompetence of
the mail standard guys, who thought that instead of simplifying
thousands of mail servers running a dozen different code bases to be
transparent, we should put highly complex workarounds in millions
clients from hundreds of different code bases.
This being the polite interpretation. Ask Dan Bernstein for the
unsweetened version.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-04 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-01 10:37 mx.gnus.org being very strick Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-01 19:36 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-02 13:11 ` mx.gnus.org being very strict Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-03 10:10 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-03 10:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-03 11:51 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-03 13:27 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-03 15:29 ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-05-03 18:13 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-03 19:25 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-03 20:16 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-04 8:48 ` Per Abrahamsen [this message]
2004-05-06 1:29 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-06 7:38 ` Steinar Bang
2004-05-06 14:11 ` Josh Huber
2004-05-06 23:09 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-08 10:06 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-08 10:03 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-08 20:29 ` Steinar Bang
2004-05-09 11:44 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-09 17:33 ` Steinar Bang
2004-05-10 14:30 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-10 17:20 ` Steinar Bang
2004-05-11 11:10 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-16 11:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-17 9:51 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-03 14:45 ` Wes Hardaker
2004-05-03 18:15 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-03 11:01 ` mx.gnus.org being very strick Reiner Steib
2004-05-03 11:10 ` mx.gnus.org being very strict Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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