From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Penelope builds a kernel
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:05:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020114180522.A24120@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020114165909.A20808@thyrsus.com> <20020114173542.C30639@redhat.com> <20020114173854.C23081@thyrsus.com> <20020114180007.D30639@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020114180007.D30639@redhat.com>; from bcrl@redhat.com on Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 06:00:08PM -0500
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 05:38:54PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Point out one and I'll fix it. I'm not satisfied that you have
> > understood what fetchmail is doing yet.
>
> Really? Why am I the one receiving bounces from FETCHMAIL-DAEMON
> when subscribers to mailing lists misconfigure their boxes?
Because fetchmail is doing the same thing any other MTA would do in that
situation -- throwing up its hands, because it doesn't have and can't get
the information to compensate for the misconfiguration.
If you have some magic patch to fix this, I'll take it. If you have
nothing constructive to contribute, please take your venom elsewhere.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my
contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the
spinal cord would fully suffice.
-- Albert Einstein
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-14 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-14 21:59 Penelope builds a kernel Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14 22:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-14 22:28 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2002-01-14 22:32 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-01-14 22:32 ` Chris Friesen
2002-01-14 22:35 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-01-14 22:38 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14 23:00 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-01-14 23:05 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2002-01-14 23:38 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-01-15 1:53 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-15 2:36 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-01-15 11:53 ` Matthias Andree
2002-01-15 22:32 ` James Antill
2002-01-15 22:28 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-16 1:29 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-15 23:00 ` Diego Calleja
2002-01-14 22:37 ` Bruce Harada
2002-01-15 0:56 ` Thomas Duffy
2002-02-01 20:46 ` Pavel Zaitsev
2002-01-14 22:44 ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-14 22:45 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14 23:15 ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-15 15:53 ` salvador
2002-01-14 23:08 ` Chris Ricker
2002-01-14 23:14 ` Tom Gilbert
2002-01-15 0:50 ` Nathan Walp
2002-01-15 1:24 ` John Levon
2002-01-15 1:39 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-15 2:07 ` John Levon
2002-01-15 3:59 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-15 13:28 ` David Woodhouse
2002-01-15 19:53 ` Ingo Oeser
2002-01-15 20:37 ` David Woodhouse
2002-01-15 21:00 ` Matthew M
2002-01-16 21:31 ` Felix von Leitner
[not found] <d7.11a4a260.2974c807@aol.com>
2002-01-14 23:51 ` Jeff Garzik
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