[Python-Dev] bugs in stdlib

[Eric S. Raymond]

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.
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		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>