On 000215, at 22:29:25, Russell Hoover wrote:
> On Mon 02/14/00 at 01:20 AM -0500, Russell Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Could someone explain where or how the BUFFY_SIZE option got its name?
>
> Still hoping for an answer here. Does no one the list know why
> BUFFY_SIZE or xbuffy were given that name? Who wrote the xbuffy
> patch?
>
> I mean, there isn't a DRAGON option is there?
>
> I'm actually trying to respond to someone who asked this very
> question, absurdly accusing mutt of being influenced by
> pop-culture frivolity, and I know that the original xbuffy patch
> had nothing to do with this, yet I don't know why it *was* called
> that either . . .
The original mailbox cycling code was introduced by Christophe Kalt
as a patch perhaps as early as November 1996. The patch was named
the "buffy" patch. The BUFFY_SIZE option was introduced sometime in
1997 by Michael S. Tsirkin, to allow the detection of new mail in
mailboxes to be based on files size changes rather than time stamps.
The xbuffy patch was written by Brandon Long in June 1998.
--
David Ellement
