What's that?

tallison at tacocat.net tallison at tacocat.net
Mon Sep 20 15:12:28 CEST 2004


> From: "Pavel Kankovsky" <peak at argo.troja.mff.cuni.cz>
>> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Tom Anderson wrote:
>>
>>> Careful about /dev/null'ing JScript.Encode... it's a Microsoft
>>> proprietary technology, [...]
>>
>> And this is a good and sufficient reason to stop it before it spreads
>> like a contagious disease.
>
> This is not for bogofilter to decide.  Unlike Microsoft products,
> bogofilter
> should be adaptable, and not be used for political reasons.  The fact is
> that Outlook and Outlook Express are ubiquitous.  Not allowing for their
> quirks will make bogofilter less useful, not Outlook.  It would stop
> bogofilter's spread, not  the other way around.
>

Absolutely correct.

I think I mentioned dev/null on jscript simply because my private email
has no Outlook users with maybe one exception and I can filter that too.

It's extremely dangerous to filter someones product.  You guarantee
someone is going to be upset.




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