Accepted ssmtp 2.60.4 (i386 source)

2003-08-17 Thread Matt Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 15:14:01 +0100 Source: ssmtp Binary: ssmtp Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.60.4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Matt Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Matt Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ssmtp

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-23 Thread Matt Ryan
If your countrymen share that sort of attitute it explains why the USA is in so many wars. Yeah. We rarely suffer fools gladly. Stop it, you're killing me. People from the USA describing others as fools. One only has to look at the dross in US newspapers and TV news bulletins to understand

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-23 Thread Matt Ryan
Michael Banck wrote: /me invokes azeem's law[0]. This thread has ended. [0] Whenever Matt Ryan enters a Flamewar, no more non-value can be added to it and therefore the thread will die. I'm not sure why you see my input as non-value? Surely its not the fact that a bunch of tightly wound geeks

Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from vacation. (MIA?)]

2003-05-20 Thread Matt Ryan
Emile van Bergen wrote: However, I fail to understand why you want people to refrain from bringing the netiquette under the attention of the people they are receiving email from. Never said they should refrain. I do think that it's a waste of time though. IOW, if everybody just tries to

Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from vacation. (MIA?)]

2003-05-20 Thread Matt Ryan
As opposed to plowing through your idiotic screed about how people shouldn't have high standards, which is clearly not a waste of time since it has important implications for how all developers maintain their packages, right? Seems you couldn't resist helping me by extending the thread? But

Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from vacation. (MIA?)]

2003-05-19 Thread Matt Ryan
Josip Rodin wrote: Well, yeah, sure, but the highway analogy doesn't apply. There isn't a single technical reason why I as a random person need to ever be in any sort of contact with a spammer to keep the system running. There was no mention of spammers in the thread! While they are prone to

Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from vacation. (MIA?)]

2003-05-19 Thread Matt Ryan
Emile van Bergen wrote I also don't understand the phrase today's Internet world. You mean with the hordes running Outlook and shopping on the clickable amazing discoveries / quantum shopping / tell sell channel that's the WWW? Yes. If you have to interact with them to any great extent then its

Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from vacation. (MIA?)]

2003-05-18 Thread Matt Ryan
Emile van Bergen wrote: So what do you propose then, to drop everything just because you cynically point out that a lot of rules are being violated today? What I'm saying is that (a lot of) these rules are archaic and irrelevant in today's Internet world. Firstly I doubt any of the people who

Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from vacation. (MIA?)]

2003-05-18 Thread Matt Ryan
Josip Rodin wrote: Right now we're getting really damn close to anarchy, when everyone and their dog has the means to entirely obliterate everyone else's mailbox with unwanted whatever-they-have-to-say, and sometimes even obliterate their computer (with viruses). We have the ability to

Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from vacation. (MIA?)]

2003-05-18 Thread Matt Ryan
Neil McGovern wrote: These are all valid points, however, I still don't want to read HTML e-mail in mutt. You are figting a losing battle. If the MUA that someone uses is set-up to send HTML (rich test, whatever) email then you are highly unlikely to get them to change it. Some devices (cable

Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from vacation. (MIA?)]

2003-05-18 Thread Matt Ryan
Andreas Metzler wrote: Hello, Which does not matter at all. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. having it distributed as RFC is just a convenience, because searching for rcf1855 on google will find perfect hits en masse. Hello, Finding it is not the problem. As I

Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from vacation. (MIA?)]

2003-05-17 Thread Matt Ryan
[He who should not be named wrote] That .sig is problematic beyond just its content; it is 12 lines long and adds almost 1kb to each of your messages (probably longer than the contents of many messages). Refer to RFC 1855 or any other netiquette document for further information. With

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-23 Thread Matt Ryan
[Some dude called Manoj (I think) did produce such utterances recently] You may be enured to unsubstantiated accusations of plagiarism, theft, idiocy, and worse, but please allow me the right of umbrage at such. I apologise for accusing Manoj of having a prune up his rear. It's clear to me

Re: stop abusing debconf already

2003-04-21 Thread Matt Ryan
Apologies, 'reply-all' is not clever enough in Outlook Express to evaluate the sender preference on being copied on list emails. Any suggestions for a MUA that can perform this feat are appreciated. Any mailer that honours the Mail-Followup-To: header that I set would do nicely. There are

Re: stop abusing debconf already

2003-04-21 Thread Matt Ryan
True, however it seems clear that he is not running Debian. This is the case as you have noticed. (the irony is almost too much to bear) Why? I have 5 PC's here (at home) and 4 of them run Debian (mixture of stable, testing and unstable). I have one Windows box that I use for email and web

Re: stop abusing debconf already

2003-04-21 Thread Matt Ryan
No offence taken. I joined when Debian wasn't run by anal retentives. Sure there was the whole free software part - but not the SS Nazi version of free software that is being prompted recently. I have to say that I'm beginning to think that your assessment is right and I should find a

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-21 Thread Matt Ryan
The difficulty of their character unfortunately often seems to correlate with the important of their software. ;) So even if the upstreams sometimes heats up easily, please spend extra patience on them for the sake of the users. Pretty please.. I'd really hate to lose something like Reiserfs

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-21 Thread Matt Ryan
Ah, pissing contest. OK, I have been building TeX since 1989, when we used to buy tapes and compile TeX on a dozen Unix systems at the university. This was before TeTeX, before Debian, and even Before Linux. So, I have 14 years of experience with TeX -- how much more do I need to have to

Re: stop the manage with debconf madness

2003-04-21 Thread Matt Ryan
Perhaps it would, if it had not come on the tails of a string of unwarranted insults against other developers (most of whom seem to agree with my ideas on the technical subject under discussion). The closest I got to an insult was accusing Manoj of having a prune up his rear. In comparison I

Re: stop abusing debconf already

2003-04-21 Thread Matt Ryan
I would like to point out that support for the Mail-Followup-To header is not required. It is sufficient that the mail client lets you edit the headers before sending the mail. This works in all mail clients I'm aware of, even if some of them make things a bit awkward. Trouble is I need to

Jumped up developers [Re: stop the manage with debconf madness]

2003-04-21 Thread Matt Ryan
Unfortunately your choice is rather weak and doesn't back up your argument so I feel obliged to continue the thread a bit further (plus its giving my brain some exercise). [Oh yeah, the quotes are from some developer who's name I've promised not to use in my emails] ...and telling Ben Collins

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-20 Thread Matt Ryan
Dude, You really need to calm down. Twice now recently you have opened your mouth and stuck your foot in when there really wasn't any need to. Take a Valium and do something less stressful. Are you talking to me? You are the one with the foot hanging out of your mouth so by a

Re: stop abusing debconf already

2003-04-20 Thread Matt Ryan
Conside rthis: when considering input from a ``jumped up developer'' who has demonstrated competence and has put in the effort like Joey Hess, and has intituted a couple of major changes in how Debian works, and an unknown twit, guess who am I going to listen to? Yawn. I don't know and I

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-20 Thread Matt Ryan
Heh. First you bad mouth Joey Hess. And now you go up against Ben Collins. And both times you take what I consider impolitic stances that show poor judgment (even ignoring the fact that you are, with nothing whatsoever to back it up) some of the most respected developers in Debian. I

Re: stop abusing debconf already

2003-04-20 Thread Matt Ryan
No offense, but I think you joined the wrong project, then. No offence taken. I joined when Debian wasn't run by anal retentives. Sure there was the whole free software part - but not the SS Nazi version of free software that is being prompted recently. I have to say that I'm beginning to think

Re: stop abusing debconf already

2003-04-20 Thread Matt Ryan
Um, no. *Policy* says that it may not be used as a registry. [SNIPPED LONG DIATRIBE THAT DOES NOT PROVE THE ABOVE STATEMENT] Sure, you delete the registry things should still work. Did I say anything different? You are making a long tenuous link to prove your point which I don't subscribe to.

Re: stop abusing debconf already

2003-04-20 Thread Matt Ryan
BTW the opinion of this jumped-up developer is please don't send me private copies of posts to mailing lists. Thanks. Apologies, 'reply-all' is not clever enough in Outlook Express to evaluate the sender preference on being copied on list emails. Any suggestions for a MUA that can perform this

Re: stop the manage with debconf madness

2003-04-20 Thread Matt Ryan
What is not helpful is when a developer gets a bad case of NOMUS (Not On My UNIX System) and goes off on one about how perfectly the world would be if everyone agreed with their narrow definition of the 'correct' way to do things. The recent /run debate was another example of this

Re: stop abusing debconf already

2003-04-19 Thread Matt Ryan
Enough already. Folks, if you don't stop abusing debconf with useless notes that belong in README.Debian and config file overwriting, I will stop maintaining it. Stop slapping incorrect uses of debconf in everywhere. Feel free to run any package using debconf by me before you upload it, or take

Re: stop the manage with debconf madness

2003-04-19 Thread Matt Ryan
Personally I use the ask-about-overwrite question in debconf because the last time this thread came up the only sensible solution was put forward in the attached email. Now, I'm all for a better solution when it is determined what that is, *but* I'm not for a witch hunt based on what was seen to

Re: stop abusing debconf already

2003-04-19 Thread Matt Ryan
Or maybe realize that Joey might perhaps know what he's talking about with regard to debconf ... you could go find the text of his talk at the last Debian Conference if you like. I realise he has an opinion on how things should be done. Depending on your own viewpoint this may be more

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-19 Thread Matt Ryan
Now I hope you stop with your trolling and consider speaking respectfully to us. I am pretty sure that if you emailed the maintainer of the package and pointed out the facts to him, he would revert the change. Dude, You really need to calm down. Twice now recently you have opened your

Re: stop the manage with debconf madness

2003-04-19 Thread Matt Ryan
Secondly, this isnot a witch hunt. What is being done is that a policy violation in older practice is being pointed out. Alternatives are being discussed; a witch hunt would have involved mass RC bug filings. The TEX discussion is definitely in witchunt territory. Maintainers (on the

Accepted ssmtp 2.60.3 (i386 source)

2002-12-08 Thread Matt Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 17:37:17 + Source: ssmtp Binary: ssmtp Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.60.3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Matt Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Matt Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ssmtp

Accepted ssmtp 2.60.2 (i386 source)

2002-10-25 Thread Matt Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:22:21 +0100 Source: ssmtp Binary: ssmtp Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.60.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Matt Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Matt Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ssmtp

Accepted ssmtp 2.60.1 (i386 source)

2002-10-12 Thread Matt Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:22:21 +0100 Source: ssmtp Binary: ssmtp Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.60.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Matt Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Matt Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ssmtp