From clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net Sun Dec 18 19:18:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: list@krisma.oltrelinux.com Delivered-To: list@krisma.oltrelinux.com Received: from aj.catt.com (aj.catt.com [64.18.103.6]) by mail.oltrelinux.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE6B11AE76 for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:18:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from aj.catt.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aj.catt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 102201560DC; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 13:17:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from neosoft.neocat.org (unknown [216.228.186.199]) by aj.catt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E51F1560DA for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 13:17:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from neosoft.neocat.org (neosoft.neocat.org [192.168.190.70]) by neosoft.neocat.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CA4E2BB1D for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:17:44 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] [OT] Top posting is harmful. (Was: Clamd Problem.) From: Bill Randle To: ClamAV users ML In-Reply-To: <7.0.0.16.2.20051218095248.03adc350@anastrophe.com> References: <43ea8d070512170148j199f1f49i@mail.gmail.com> <43A435BA.8080206@telkom.net.id> <80D86E2B-399C-4B3F-B4C6-789EA69542A4@daleenterprise.com> <200512172314.10947.kitchen@scriptkitchen.com> <43A582EA.5010407@gmail.com> <20051218173333.5bf5fd05@peterson.fenrir.org.uk> <7.0.0.16.2.20051218095248.03adc350@anastrophe.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Neo Software, Inc. Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:17:43 -0800 Message-Id: <1134929864.14234.56.camel@neosoft.neocat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3-10mdk Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ClamAV users ML List-Id: ClamAV users ML List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net Errors-To: clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at krisma.oltrelinux.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=-999.0 required=6.0 tests=BAYES_50 X-Spam-Level: On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 10:01 -0800, clamav@anastrophe.com wrote: [snip] > disconnect. i realize the 'is harmful' term goes back to Tom > Christensen's famous (infamous?) article "Csh programming considered > harmful", and is more a respectful nod to that bit of internet > history rather than actually implying that it really is 'harmful'. > but, much in line with the mention of old-timers above - not a lot of > newcomers are familiar with that article. Actually, the "is harmful" phrase, if anything, refers to Edsger W. Dijkstra's famous paper in 1968 titled "Go To Statement Considered Harmful." Tom's article about csh came many decades later. I guess it makes me really old, to have read the Dijkstra paper, but not Tom's. -Bill _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html