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From: Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com>
Subject: Re: [John Moreno <phenix@interpath.com>] Re: GNKSA and Gnus
Date: 04 Jan 1998 13:07:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vxklnww5d00.fsf@pocari-sweat.jprc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Russ Allbery's message of "04 Jan 1998 02:54:02 -0800"

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
>> The GNKSA has evolved from a sensible bare-bones minimum thang into
>> something, uh, else, and I think the whole think has become pointless.

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> The GNKSA started as a very reasonable and interesting endeavor; it's
> really a shame that it's turned into something this useless and misguided.

The real horror is that GNKSA started out as nothing more challenging
than codifying the behavior of rn (for the most part), and yet I
recall such innumerable complaints about all the supposedly heavy
requirements being forced on all those suffering software authors,
most of whom just somehow couldn't get it right.


  reply	other threads:[~1998-01-04 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-01-04 11:02 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-04 10:54 ` Russ Allbery
1998-01-04 18:07   ` Karl Kleinpaste [this message]
1998-01-04 19:55   ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-01-04 21:31     ` Russ Allbery
1998-01-05  4:11       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-05  4:44         ` kill-to-signature (was GNKSA and Gnus) Russ Allbery
1998-01-06  6:34           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-04 20:31 [John Moreno <phenix@interpath.com>] Re: GNKSA and Gnus John Moreno
1998-01-04 21:45 ` Russ Allbery
1998-01-04 21:45 John Moreno
1998-01-04 21:53 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-01-04 22:04 John Moreno
1998-01-04 22:27 John Moreno
1998-01-05  3:55 John Moreno
1998-01-06  7:07 John Moreno

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