On Apr 3, 9:03 am, Neil Hodgson <nhodg...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > rusi wrote: > > ... > >> a 'micro-benchmark' - I'd just like to avoid adding email access to get > >> this over the threshold. > > > What does that last statement mean? > > Its a reference to a comment by Jamie Zawinski (relatively famous > developer of Netscape Navigator and other things):
And Xemacs (which is famous in the free sw world for other things!) > > "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those > programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." :-) Ok got it -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
