On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:55:34 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 29 March 2007 at 17:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> It was not actually working. mailcrypt created something, and then
>> emacs went and was free to mangle it -- which means it is broken
>> for any message body that has anything that is non ascii. In this
>> day and age, that is broken.
> Doesn't take away from the fact that
> i) voting is important for the project
> ii) forcing utf8 now obviously increased the failure rate as
> e.g. shown in the lwn.net piece.
If voting is this important for the project, people ought to
learn how to send signed messages based on RFC 2015 whgich is now
over a decade old.
> In that sense, it worked before and is now broken. By your choice.
No, luddites clinging to technology older than a decade, using
mailcrypt, whose last substantive upstream change was in 2003,
insted of the newer and more capable crypto packages, are the ones
whose mail is broken.
Even they have work arounds. The world is not always gonna
keep holding back for a few people holding on to obsolete software.
>> Updating to easypg should be on your todo list.
> Wow, four mails into this an actual constructive suggestion by
> you. I'm not quite sure how to handle this. I better sit down now.
If you were less combative, you'd find people more inclined to
spoon feed you. As such, there are easier ways for you to boot strap
yourself into the modern era, but I am no longer inclined to keep
spoon feeding you.
>> I suggest you strive to enter this millennium. Being a Luddite in a
>> technology project gets old real fast.
> You know your position is untenable, or you wouldn't have to resort
> to repeated name calling. I didn't call it BS the last time, but let
> me do so now.
> If your position is "it's new, it must be better, let's all upgrade
> whether it works or not", then I'd rather take the other side.
Hell, it was new in 1996. Like, you know, well in the last
millennium. Like before we had voting.
So, if you are using software that does not conform to a RFC
published in '96, that's your funeral. Don;t expect us to keep
treating standards over a decade old as something too new to use in
production.
manoj
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