On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 01:02:53PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> I haven't said what I want, beyond something better than the current
> situation, so this response does not seem to be to the point unless
> you think the current situation is ideal.
>
> I am trying to come up with something myself (http://www.zembu.com/)
> but Zembu Labs can't do it alone. I want to encourage people to
> realize that the Internet could stand improvement. Saying people
> should just accept the way things are, which is how I read Dave Sill's
> note to which I originally replied, is a hot button for me.
Your apparent standpoint in this conversation, up until this paragraph, was
that qmail (or internet mail in general) is lacking some feature that you
want implemented:
Ian> I don't see why the current state of affairs is appropriate or even
Ian> reasonable.
Ian> You can't check everything, but it doesn't follow that we shouldn't
Ian> try to check what we can.
Ian> I'm not saying we should make things perfect. I'm saying we should
Ian> make things better. And the first step is realizing that things are
Ian> not good enough--or, in other words, that they are not perfect.
You've been answered with (for the most part) "We think things are OK the way
they are, use queuelifetime if you want to change qmail's behavior"
--Adam
