-t output

[David Relson]

At 08:52 AM 7/30/03, Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:
>David Relson wrote:
>
> > Bogofilter allows user specified formatting for reporting its status.
>
>I know. My point is that this does not make sense for -t.
>
> > The default spamicity_tags are "Y/N/U", but I prefer "S/H/U".  They could
> > as easily be "A/B/C" or any other three strings.
>
>And there is no way for another program to know without
>complicated tricks. Or all those need to create special
>config files.
>
> > Moral:  a customized config file can make life difficult for a script.  To
> > use a script, a user needs to have a compatible config file or else must
> > modify the script.
>
>And that seems to be a bad idea. Terse format is to use in
>scripts. So better don't allow any change in the format, so
>everybody can rely on that.

You have a point.  However I don't agree that a single terse format is 
adequate for all uses.