Re: [djb@koobera.math.uic.edu: qmail 1.00 available]

[Andy Bradford <amb-1166294724@bradfords.org>]

Thus said Sasa Ugrenovic on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:20:09 +0100:

> Would  you stick  around and  patch stuff,  to the  level of  backward
> compatibility..to  get  some of  the  features  other few  web  server
> already have and aren't any slower or less secure. There's no logic in
> that.

Why  don't you  ask the  OpenBSD team,  who conciously  made a  decision
(based on  security) to  leave the base  installation Apache  at version
1.3.23, why they did this?

> When we ask that ourself, DJB  should then ask himself, is this policy
> OK.. and  does he care  about qmail. If  he doesn't, why  should admin
> deal with it. I was searching for a answer here.

Have you ever considered that possibility  that maybe he thinks it isn't
broken enough to fix?

Andy
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