[ On Monday, August 14, 2000 at 11:27:33 (-0400), Pavel Roskin wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Antigen found =*.pl file
>
> I must disagree with you. There are no good reasons to post Perl programs
> in mailing lists. They should be on web sites, packaged with the
> documentation. They could also be on public CVS, optionally enhanced with
> a web interface.
I can barely restrain myself from letting out a flame that would
unfortunately broil everyone behind every screen where it appears!
You can't seriously mean that in any practical sense. Where's your smiley?
Or are you to suggesting that your mailer blindly executes perl programs
that appear in the bodies of messages is presents to you?!?!?!?!?!
I'll post a sed filter for you since you don't seem to want me to post a
perl filter (and I wouldn't want to mess up your mailer! ;-):
sed -e '/^#!.*perl/,$d'
(not that I'm a fan of perl, of course -- far from it! :-)
> Mailing lists are good for discussing patches and tiny scripts, but not
> for pushing stuff to everybody (IMHO)
In some cases this might be desirable, but in general practice it is not
practical, nor even always desirable!
It's also a *TOTALLY* different issue than what that yapping virus
hunter complained about....
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