exit codes in docs [was: Correction to integrating-with-postfix]

[Greg Louis]

On 20030802 (Sat) at 1024:30 -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
> > How about adding another switch to bogofilter that makes it return an
> > exit code that's equal to its spamicity value?  IE a 1.00 count would
> > return a 100, a non-spam of 0.04 would return a 4.
> 
> It boggles my mind that people are using exit codes at all for what is
> clearly program output.
> 
One objective of bogofilter is to scale well.  Parsing ASCII output
takes a good bit more time than checking return codes.

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