Re: A firestorm of protest?

[Henning Brauer]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:18:10PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
> I'm considering removing the entire patches section from
> www.qmail.org.
> 
> Why?  Because a patch implies that something is wrong, and needs to be
> fixed.  However, when someone produces a "patch" for smtp-auth, that
> implies that qmail-smtpd has a problem that the patch fixes.  I'd
> rather see people steal the necessary parts of Makefile, and Dan's
> library code, and create a stand-alone "qmail-smtpd-auth" program.

I'd just rename it from patches to "additional functionality" or something
like that.

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