Quoting Geoff Shang, from the post of Sat, 09 Feb:
>
> I'm sure there are others here who disagree.  As a person who works on a  
> system where the decision was made to use DJBDNS and QMail before I got  
> here, I find it all unnecessarily cryptic.  Personally I think his time  
> would have been better spent fixing the bugs he saw in existing  
> implementations rather than reinventing the wheel.

DJB is indeed one stubborm Yid, and as JB Shaw once said, it's the
stubborn people who advance humanity, by adapting the world to them
rather than adapting themselves to the world. Most people don't like the
way he does things. not the config formats, nor coding style, not
packaging and license, but you have to admit the guy writes amazingly
tight and efficient algorithems, unix-style modular systems made of
small, dumb, secure bits that are put together for best performance and
functionality.

the TinyDNS however, is a let-down, I agree. unlike Qmail, it's a step
in the wrong direction for usability, and that's a pity. OTOH I have
been fighting with an LDAP server for a few days here and I WISH there
was a DJB take on this ugly service, TinyDNS-style. life would have been
so much simpler :-(

-- 
Joke of the day
Ira Abramov
http://ira.abramov.org/email/

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