[1744] in SIPB bug reports
your recent suggestions about xrn
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Sun Mar 10 17:05:08 1991
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 91 17:04:47 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: gptesler@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: usenet@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
You recently sent several suggestions about xrn to
"software_suggestions". Note that the software_suggestions mailing
list is for suggestions about Athena-supported software or about
software that Athena should continue supporting. Xrn is in the sipb
locker, and is not an Athena-supported program, so suggestions about
it should be sent to "bug-sipb", not to software_suggestions.
I have forwarded your suggestions to the current maintainer of xrn,
but I do not think he is going to implement them in the near future.
The parsing of dates and sorting of date into chronological order is a
complicated process that would take xrn a long time to do, and the
return on the investment isn't really that great. But, like I said,
I'll pass on your suggestions.
--> Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Quality Assurance and User Consulting
Treasurer, Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
jik@Athena.MIT.EDU
