On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:18:18 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 29 March 2007 at 21:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Hmm, I am no longer seeing anything new in here. Seems like you
>> are whinging that the ballots are not constrained to ascii, and
>> your broken MUA(s) can't deal with sending something conforming to
>> a 10 year old RFC 2015.
> And I don't care if you fix it in the MUA you maintain, or the
> infrastructure software.
> But there's a bug because of you, and _you_ ought to fix it.
The bug lies in the software you use.
>> > [1] Again pointing to lwn.net. I didn't try all of our available
>> > MUAs, but I had two fail on me, including one that worked for,
>> > hm, a decade?
>>
>> Man, you insist on being spoon fed. So fine, here is a list. Find
>> one that suits you. Geez. Took me all or 2 minutes using google.
>>
>> http://www.bretschneidernet.de/tips/secmua.html
> I don't really care. I am not going to change MUA because your
> voting software is broken by (over-)design.
The voting system software has nothing to do with it. The
errors come from gpg realizing that the ballot you sent in was
corrupt.
Stop sending in corrupt ballots.
> But now with your third hat on, you may want to consider
> _documenting_ in the voting instructions which MUAs are known to
> work with your now-borked setup,
The setup is not borked. Sending in a non mangled ballot works
fine.
> and which one don't. As I mentioned, emacs/vm and mpack both
> fail. Mutt seems to work. Maybe you can extend the list based on
> the mails you accepted with vote.
If it scratches your itch to document which mailers can send
standards compliant mail, feel free. Not something I particularly
feel like doing.
I have no desire to molly coddle people and instruct them in
how to use a modern MUA.
Anyway, I'm done with this conversation.
manoj
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