Mailing List Archive: What to do with the unclaimed bounty? Here's a thought.

On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Mark Delany wrote:
> Was this matter ever resolved? I'm not especially fussed personally
> considering it's such a paltry amount, but I do have a thought.

I recall that the receipient that was settled on in the final draft was
the FSF.

> My thought is that we send it to Eric Allman for his unfailing efforts over
> the years.
[nice mode off]
Unfailing? Didn't he stop working on sendmail after v5, letting every
glaring bug get fixed (or not) by each vendor that distributed sendmail?
How many sendmail books didn't get written in that period?
[nice mode on]
Sorry, had to get that out.

> Like many of you on this list, I have used sendmail for many years. How many
> mails has it delivered for us in that time? A trillion? Ten trillion?
> Probably more.

Agreed.

> Certainly sendmail is far from perfect and perhaps waning in importance, but
> to my mind, $500 pathetically under-rates the contribution that Eric has
> made on our behalf over the years.

How about this: If any of us gets to meet eric at an IETF or Usenix
gathering or somesuch, we'll get him a beer?

-Peter