Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>:
Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>:
If you saw that and chose to ignore my advice, I would've appreciated a reply at least.
I did not. I would have heeded that advice.
On reflection, more explanation seems called for... I've been flooded in a particularly repellent way recently. Somebody is using my From address for spam mail about quack remedies for prostate trouble, somebody so illiterate that the Subject line read "urnination flow". As a result, I've been getting several *thousand* bounce messages a day from sites rightly rejecting this crud, and hitting the 'd' key in rapid-fire mode. I may have inadvertently flushed your mail, dammit, which is not something I would ever do deliberately. I subjunctively apologize. You may not be alone, I fear. I almost blew past mail from Dennis Ritchie last night, just barely caught myself in time. I'm wondering now what other important bits I lost... :-( :-( :-( I do not regard the ConfigParser changes as at all urgent -- the bug is a minor one. So I won't be offended if Fred chooses to back them out. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>