From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: ip22 watchdog timer
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 16:06:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020215160601.A845@dea.linux-mips.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1020215152948.29773L-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 03:41:49PM +0100
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 03:41:49PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > How true. MIME - broken solution for a broken design ;) More serious,
>
> Why broken? It's not broken for what it was invented to, i.e. for
> passing unsafe characters via SMTP. Source patches do not qualify as
> containing such.
The transition time from pre-MIME to MIME was pretty painful. If you'd
have gone through the same pains that I did during the MIME introduction
you'd probably understand why I call it a broken fix for a broken system.
Fortunately now that the childhood problems have been solved MIME looks
alot saner but still I prefer plaintext for patches.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-15 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-08 17:27 ip22 watchdog timer Guido Guenther
2002-02-15 4:56 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-02-15 12:06 ` Guido Guenther
2002-02-15 14:17 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-02-15 14:21 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-02-15 14:41 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-02-15 15:06 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2002-02-15 21:02 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-02-15 21:02 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-02-15 20:33 ` Jim Paris
2002-02-15 15:42 ` Guido Guenther
2002-02-15 16:19 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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