[836] in Cypherpunks
Software infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hughes)
Fri Jun 4 01:43:28 1993
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 22:22:23 -0700
From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: J. Michael Diehl's message of Thu, 3 Jun 1993 22:52:52 -0600 (MDT) <9306040452.AA13658@triton.unm.edu>
>It
>puzzles me why we are contemplating writing our own comm package when so many
>good ones are out there that can be made to serve our purposes.
Reliability. Scripts do not easily handle error conditions that might
result in lost mail. They're fine for a few, but they aren't for all.
Integration. Remembering what to do next is a large hurdle.
Eric
