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 -- I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone. Steven Wright Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]