Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:33:13 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai "IOnut" Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: vd@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, nivo+sender+0820bd@is-root.com Subject: Re: How to construct this port? Message-ID: <20061228203313.0752d58e@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <4594049E.2040404@mac.com> References: <4593AB3D.5090107@is-root.com> <20061228122828.GA8473@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> <20061228123616.GA8652@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> <20061228145728.4f13fa4a@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <4594049E.2040404@mac.com>
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--Sig_t9YBA6ug./vJHKnvSAkUcW6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:53:34 -0500 Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: [ ... ] > However, sometimes mail systems go down or block traffic for whatever > reason: postmaster's job is a thankless task, and this was true even > before spam and viral email appeared. Nowadays, it's harder to get > things mostly right (nevermind "perfect"), so postmasters make > imperfect decisions because they are faced with undesirable tradeoffs. Indeed :-( However banning a hole country isn't a tradeoff in my book, it's just plain [inset_the_word_here]. And sine it's giving a 5XX code there's really no way to reach the person in question. =20 > It has not been my observation that insisting people not make any > mistakes commonly results in fewer mistakes being made, or much less, > in zero mistakes being made. :-) Rather than try to insist they > "are not allowed" to do something, I'd prefer to let people make > their own decisions and learn which ones are mistakes. YMMV.... The problem is that, IMHO, this kind of rejecting affects us all as I think that being a port maintainer implies receiving and replying to users' email. I don't use any of the ports maintainer by Nils so I could not care, but I think it's my responsibility as commiter to point out that this is a mistake. --=20 IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" Fascinating, a totally parochial attitude. -- Spock, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8 --Sig_t9YBA6ug./vJHKnvSAkUcW6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFlA3pBX6fi0k6KXsRAlxCAJ9MqNj9jk9CarlkB8PzzZYCTGgF3ACfepMx wQrPUm7Q+HSrWZ6vPdp0x0E= =GMfT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_t9YBA6ug./vJHKnvSAkUcW6--
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