[Gllug] So no one has opinions about ISPs?

[Nix]

On 8 Aug 2007, Rich Walker outgrape:

> Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> writes:
>>
>> It's worse. First he does this and *then he abandons the software while
>> saying he hasn't*.
>
> Like ESR and fetchmail, eh? 

At least he handed over maintainership in the end (it just took ages,
and I can understand *that*: that's `I'm just busy now but it lasts
forever' syndrome).

(In similar vein, the author of Sawfish has recently been persuaded that
just because he thinks Sawfish is complete not everyone else may agree,
so it's come back to life again under a new maintainer).

> </satisfied getmail user>

I use sendmail (sorry! I haven't had time to learn exim or postfix yet).

> On another note, I once had the misfortune to take a look into a piece
> of DJB software. All the function names were garbage. Really. I nearly
> wrote to his university to demand he be taken off teaching immediately...

I dunno, remember what TANGLE did to function names? (Mind you, that had
a purpose, although it did make debugging notably unpleasant.)

His function names are vaguely understandable, but the indentation
style, *ick*. He seems to think that linefeeds are in terribly limited
supply...
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