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Autor: KatolaZ
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To: dng
Betreff: Re: [DNG] who's tying up my port 80?
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 09:41:11AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting KatolaZ (katolaz@???):
>
> > Again, links before opinions:
> >
> > https://sourceforge.net/p/net-tools/code/ci/master/tree/
> >
> > net-tools might be obsolete for many functions, but it's still
> > developed, and is surely not "unmaintained" since 17 years ago.
>
> Argue with Jon Corbet, then:
> https://lwn.net/Articles/710533/
>
> That was last year. I don't believe there's been a substantial
> turnaround despite some checkins. (If I'm mistaken, I'lll find out when
> I hear people whose judgment I trust say 'A miracle happened and
> net-tools has been fully made reasonable to rely on, again.')



Yeah, I knew the link, and it correctly says that net-tools has not
seen a new release since 2011 (which is 7 years, not 17 :P).

And thanks a lot for the link. This is the way a discussion should go
:)

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>
> Jon Corbet was on the glass-half-empty side of the discussion when he
> covered procmail's status, but be sure to read the comment thread.
> https://lwn.net/Articles/416901/
>


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Rick, thanks again for this other link: I will go through the thread,
promise, and I am sure I will learn something useful. My whole point
was that old does not necessarily mean bad (which seems to have become
fancy these days) or gold (which is another dangerous tenet).

HND

KatolaZ

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