Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Throw the Bugzilla out of window

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>]

On Nov 19, 2004, at 10:25 AM, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> I recommend it to be thrown out of window and replaced with a mailing 
> list. You
> can organize e-mails in mailboxes the same way as bugzilla allows 
> organizing
> bugreports. And, unlikely of Bugzilla, I can receive up to 100MB 
> attachments on
> my mailbox without problems.
  I nearly spat water all over my monitor when I read this.

  Email is not, I repeat NOT, a file-transfer mechanism.  If anyone in 
the world should know that, it's people here.  The fact that Microsoft 
makes it easy to do, and even *encourages* this protocol abuse, does 
not make it right, nor does the fact that many of people do it every 
day.

  I realize there are some people here who aren't programmers, and who 
may not have been involved in the "nitty gritty" of the Internet and 
how it all works, but anyone who does electronic design at any level 
likely has a grasp of a few basic concepts...such as "use right tool 
for the job".

  Sheesh.  What a way to start a day.  Grrr.

          -Dave

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