Re: protocol explosion (was asynchronous execution, was Re: implementing a set of queue-processing servers)

2002-11-22 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Friday, Nov 22, 2002, at 02:49 Europe/London, Gunther Birznieks wrote: I disagree. I think it depends on the protocol. A well designed protocol for an application will spread and stand the test of time. Sometimes the protocol doesn't have to be well designed, but just that it's standard

Re: web security (was implementing a set of queue-processing servers)

2002-11-22 Thread Gunther Birznieks
Rob Nagler wrote: This isn't because more eyes looked at postfix than sendmail, but that the eye that designed postfix was a security-minded eye and his friends who are also security minded also likely had a hand in audit. Sendmail is a bad example. ;-) I agree that quality does