Re: [Nmh-workers] mh-aliases and '*' expansion

2013-05-25 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2013-05-25, at 5:30 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote: > And remind me ... weren't you the one who advocated everyone reading > meillo's thesis, where he makes a compelling case for removing _exactly_ > stuff like this? :-) Yup, but without busting anything people still might be using, without fair wa

Re: [Nmh-workers] mh-aliases and '*' expansion

2013-05-25 Thread Ken Hornstein
>We currently alias expand '*' to every account in the password database >with a UID>200. This seems anachronistic to say the least. Tell me why >I shouldn't eradicate this code forthwith. I cannot imagine any reasonable use for this code; I vote for removing it completely. Sure, there may be so

Re: [Nmh-workers] mh-aliases and '*' expansion

2013-05-25 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2013-05-25, at 4:57 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: > It was never correct or clean or useful. Today it's only interesting as a > museum piece. Just checking to see if a museum piece is still using it. There's a lot of still-running MH-based code that hasn't been touched in decades ... Most likely

Re: [Nmh-workers] mh-aliases and '*' expansion

2013-05-25 Thread Paul Vixie
It was never correct or clean or useful. Today it's only interesting as a museum piece. Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: >We currently alias expand '*' to every account in the password database >with a UID>200. This seems anachronistic to say the least. Tell me why >I shouldn't eradicate this code for

[Nmh-workers] mh-aliases and '*' expansion

2013-05-25 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
We currently alias expand '*' to every account in the password database with a UID>200. This seems anachronistic to say the least. Tell me why I shouldn't eradicate this code forthwith. uip/aliasbr.c (/EVERYONE) and man/mh-alias.man for details. ___ N

Re: [Nmh-workers] The zone field of Date-Time components

2013-05-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 25 May 2013 06:17:02 -0700, n...@dad.org said: > As I read, RFC822, Section 5.1, the zone filed field of Date components, is > required. Do I misread it? I have encountered one Email, for which it is > missing. It there a de defacto standard which makes it optional? Are you able to identi

Re: [Nmh-workers] The zone field of Date-Time components

2013-05-25 Thread David Levine
Norm wrote: > As I read, RFC822, Section 5.1, the zone filed field of > Date components, is required. Do I misread it? I have > encountered one Email, for which it is missing. It there a > de defacto standard which makes it optional? I agree that it is required by RFC 822. And also by RFC 2822,

[Nmh-workers] The zone field of Date-Time components

2013-05-25 Thread norm
As I read, RFC822, Section 5.1, the zone filed field of Date components, is required. Do I misread it? I have encountered one Email, for which it is missing. It there a de defacto standard which makes it optional? Norman Shapiro 798 Barron Avenue Palo Alto CA 94306-3109 (650) 56