> From: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 22 Apr 1999 14:05:36 -0000
>
> Dave Sill writes:
> > "Racer X" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >so we can all see the huge number of patches that are listed on
> > >www.qmail.org, and i'd be willing to bet that anyone who has used qmail
> for
> > >more than a day or so has had to use at least one of those patches.
> >
> > You'd lose. I've used qmail heavily for three years and I don't use
> > any patches anywhere.
>
> I'm only using the rbl patch, and that only because I wrote it before
> Dan wrote rblsmtpd.
I'm also not using any patches. I used Sam's anti-spam patch for a while, but
it got too many false positives, so I backed it off the systems I had it on.
(The client who had insisted I install it found that mail from their VC firm
was being bounced!)
> > >it might be interesting if people had a way to rate the usefulness of
> > >various patches, both for general usefulness and how well the patch
> > >integrates into qmail (that is, whether it should really be a patch or
> a
> > >separate program).
> >
> > It would be interesting to know who's using which patches and why. One
> > of Dan's main objections to patches is that they make it hard for him
> > to tell what really needs to be changed in qmail. If one has problem X
> > with qmail, and there's a patch that fixes problem X on www.qmail.org,
> > most people just install the patch and never complain to Dan.
>
> The problem with that theory is that, when someone complains to Dan,
> he dismisses their concern as trivial and frivolous. Given the choice
> between being insulted, and actually getting your problem solved by
> installing a patch, which would you choose?
Even so, it would be interesting to know who's using which patches and why.
Chris
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