Re: [opendkim:bugs] #222 Enhance config file element handling for unrecognized tags/parameters

From: A. Schulze <sca_at_andreasschulze.de>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 19:34:05 +0000

Murray S. Kucherawy:

> Someone not checking logs and relying on ADSP to be there might find
> out much later that a feature she was anticipating had actually been
> removed.

is it called "minimum surprise" ?

the removed feature broke an existing configuration. that's bad.
for the user and the reputation of the software in question.

To avoid such things any piece of software could simply print a warning,
accept and ignore historical parameter.

Andreas
Received on Sun Mar 29 2015 - 19:34:31 PST