[TAG] Pete Jewell's mail problems

Mon Jun 12 19:42:36 MSD 2006

This sort of diagnostic suggests a problem unlikely to go away:
Basically, the main "nildram.com.uk" mail exchanger has stopped 
being willing to handle mail for Pete's mailbox on host (virthost?) 
"phraxos".  Usually, this would turn out, upon examination, to reflect 
Pete's account having been closed, or something like that.

Accordingly, I'm unsubscribing him.  If he shows up and asks, that's
what happened.  ;->  

In an ideal world, people would fix (move or close) their mailing list
subscriptions when they change mailboxes, but, well, it doesn't happen.

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Quoting Thomas Adam (thomas at edulinux.homeunix.org):

> Was it good?  Did you read it?  I can't help but think there was more to
> this email than just that sentence above, initially.  :P

If anyone hasn't yet read this 1994 collection of Unix discontents, 
it's definitely worth the trouble, if only because the ranting is
sometimes inventive and literate:
http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/unix-haters.html

Dennis Ritchie's comment in his "anti-forward" is worth noting:  "You
claim to seek progress, but you succeed mainly in whining."  That's 
the lesser problem with the book (particularly in the parts written by LISP
Machine and ITS fans whose preferred environments early Unix replaced):
It's just a miscellany of sundry people's personal piques and resentments.  
The larger problem is that those complaints, though they were sometimes
reasonable if (mostly) exaggerated at the time they were posted to the
unix-haters mailing list -- late 1980s to early 1990s -- just about all
seemed _already_ quaint by the time of publication.

In fact, the key ingredient required for fixing those antique problems
was open-source licensing and source code access, which was arriving in
the form of the BSD family and Linux precisely as the book was being
published in 1994.

Chris Browne's review of the now-publicly-available text is here:
http://linuxfinances.info/info/unixhaters.html

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