[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 279 revisited (original) (raw)

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:35:51 -0400

"AB" == Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au> writes:

AB> Great. So Barry does what Mailman tells him to do, and Barry
AB> modifies and improves Mailman. I predict a self-aware Mailman
AB> that kills us all within 2 years.

You're thinking of the older Postman protocol (specifically GPP - the Go Postal Protocol), which was indeed prone to fits of violence. The newer MHHJJP (Mailman Happy Happy Joy Joy Protocol) wouldn't kill anybody or anything. It might turn you all into 'bots, but as the Tim and /F bots have shown, that may not be such a bad thing.

-B