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Date:      Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:45:12 +0100
From:      Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How about finally replacing GNATS?
Message-ID:  <038C004A-6177-472D-A328-90830E04F640@cederstrand.dk>
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Den 30/10/2012 kl. 16.51 skrev Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>:

> On 30 October 2012 03:06, Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk> wrote:
>=20
>> Apart from running uname -a, what does send-pr offer on a machine without=
 HTTP access compared to just filling out the send-pr form on a machine that=
 does have HTTP access?
>=20
> Being able to do it offline, and then having it send when you plug
> into the network :-)
>=20
> You realise SMTP, like NNTP/usenet, is really good at "partially offline" m=
odes?

Yes. I thought we were talking about machines with permanently firewalled ou=
tgoing port 80.

I'm not suggesting send-pr should go. I even provided a script to keep using=
 it with Bugzilla. I'm just curious what's so great about it in 2012. Offlin=
e is a good argument, and HTTP sucks at offline.

Erik=



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