Re: wacky/disturbing error message

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 10:29:31PM -0400, John Peacock wrote:
> Not for humans, they aren't. Show me how to search on Message-ID, in any
> mail
> archive, either for this project or any other list. They are only useful

http://lists.debian.org/google.html

Picking a random Message-ID:

 20030508072203.GA759@fistandantilus.takhisis.org

and entering it into the form gives me the message and its two replies,
with no false positives, which is incredibly useful.

> Bitching that "Fixing poor error messages doesn't seem to be a priority."
> is unfair at best. This is an open-source project; if that error message
> bothers you that much, fix the code.

Ramping up on a project enough to fix problems correctly requires a significant
time investment, so saying "fix it yourself" isn't very interesting. (I don't
consider an observation of apparent priorities to be "bitching", but I'm not
interested in arguing about it.)

-- 
Glenn Maynard
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