On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:35:23 -0800 Manuel McLure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| Neil Bothwick wrote:
| > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:39:24 -0800, Manuel McLure wrote:
| > 
| > 
| >>I can't believe I'm reading this. The server is *broken* - not the 
| >>clients. The fact that you can "work around" the problem is not
| >>acceptable.
| 
| It's called "not changing things that people depend on", AKA
| "backwards  compatibility."

If you want to depend upon undocumented coincidences, that's entirely
your affair. Don't complain when things break, however.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools)
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