From owner-freebsd-net Mon Mar 19 16:12:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from info.iet.unipi.it (info.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDB9B37B71E for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 16:12:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it) Received: (from luigi@localhost) by info.iet.unipi.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA88712; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 01:04:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200103200004.BAA88712@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: A few nasty bugs in the networking code In-Reply-To: <20010319122535V.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> from Jordan Hubbard at "Mar 19, 2001 12:25:35 pm" To: Jordan Hubbard Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 01:04:48 +0100 (CET) Cc: yar@comp.chem.msu.su, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Actually, I think quoting PR#s is a more than acceptable way of > pointing things out. They're very easy to look up for anyone (and > committers get the extra advantage of using query-pr on freefall) and IF you have connectivity while you are reading, which is my whole point. The one big advantage of mailing lists over news or web access is that you can download your emails and browse through it offline. > it sure beats wearing one's fingers out by entering the same > information over and over again. only once, actually. Whereas there are ~200 potential readers (committers). In my opinion, if I want some work done, i better try to stimulate/attract the interest of those who have to do the work -- not to mention the advantage of a bit of verbosity when searching through mailing list archives etc. cheers luigi ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . ACIRI/ICSI (on leave from Univ. di Pisa) http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . 1947 Center St, Berkeley CA 94704 Phone (510) 666 2927 . ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message