On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:44:04 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: 

> On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:11:57AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Hey, everyone knows there are all kinds of buggy software out
>> there.  Conformant mailers don't have a problem. Buggy mailers
>> do. Why is this a surprise?

> It's your the attitude that's the problem.  Why can you not document
> known deficiencies to prevent a (demonstrably large) number of
> people from failing to send in proper votes.

        Known deficiencies in _what_? All kinds non standard mailers
 people use? I have no desire to be prescribiing what mailers people
 use. There is no special requirement to vote -- all you need to do is
 follow IETF standards for sending mail.

        Why would you think non-standard mails would be acceptable?

> Which, of course, were proper in the previous setup yet the change
> was not documented.  Yet you insists that's ok. It's laughable.

        No, they were not proper previously either. It is just that
 their bugs were not tickled. There was no change -- the fact that
 this happens to be the first ballot with diacritics  is pure
 happenstance. The fact that some mailers send conforming mail in the
 absence of accented chars, but don't do so in the presence of such
 characters is not something I control, or am aware of. My mailer
 never gave me issues.

        As for informing people, devotee sends in all the details ti
 can gather. thge issue has been discussed on the mailing lists. Case
 in point, I even informed you about what was wrong, and what you had
 to do. But no, you had to go on rants and throw a tantrum.

        manoj
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