Here we go re-inventing the ego-wheel again

Posted Sep 12, 2002 13:55 UTC (Thu) by garym (guest, #251)
Parent article: Spam avoidance techniques

Remember the Freshmeat editorial on how to pick an opensource project? The basic sarcastic rule was "Pick something already done, and do it the same way." Bogofilter may not be mature (and the less said about buffer-overrun and similar failures in its sibling software the better), but iFile is not; its probably unwise to chastize a net god, but even if Eric has black kettle concerns that it's not proper, I can't command him, but I'd rather he just contribute to the pre-existing software, standing on shoulders instead of standing on the toes of others. iFile is all ready, coded and deployed, and contributor packages include scripts for folding in with procmail or any of about half a dozen email readers, and, of course, it's free software.