In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, if someone had of answered my question (to cvs-committers)
> about getting an account fixed up on freefall(?) so I could use
> cvs again, it might not have been forgotten about for quite so
> long. Maybe I sent the question to the "wrong place", but I
> received no answer to even indicate that! hmpf!
You gave up too easily. Do you think we're some kind of finely tuned
engine over here? Send your mail again to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and nag
them every 3 days until your account is fixed. (Don't bother nagging
next week, as everybody will be at FreeBSDCon.)
> On a conspirital note, I think there are numerous ipfw advocates
> within freebsd who hate that ipfilter is better >;-)
I don't think that's it. The fact is, ipfilter was in terrible shape
in our source tree. Nobody had done a thing with it since June of
1998. From what I heard, it didn't even work reliably under 3.x.
(Did it even compile?) Some of its source files were duplicated
in "src/contrib/ipfilter" and "src/sys/netinet", with different
versions of the files in the two places. Working on it was basically
a nightmare. I know because I did work on it for a client of mine.
I'm a big proponent of ipfilter's features. I'd love to see it come
back if it were really going to be cleaned up and kept maintained.
John
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John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
"No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron
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