CookBook/Matrix document, CGI-SMTP (was months ago: Requesting advice how to clean up C code for validating string represents integer)

Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:16:47 +0000
From: Flash Gordon <s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
You have not fixed all of the errors that have been pointed out to you.

I claim to have fixed all the errors which were to my knowledge
pointed out to me prior to the date of your article (Feb.25). I
have a huge backlog of more recent articles bookmarked but not yet
processed:
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(treehouses safe?)
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(also Chinese factor: to put water on boombox!!)
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(my mother's step-father)
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(neither eating is essential)
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(I'm a nice guy who has suffered from shyness most of my life, ...
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("ya" is a Spanish-language word. Do you know what it means?)
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(I think that's a great idea!)
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(Hey, I did cybersex once, in late 2000, with dead2u. ...
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(under Stevens Creek freeway along Evelyn next to creek with ...
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(If you keep a copy of your sent-mail, the address is there to copy&paste later.)
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(what was the IP number where it came from?)
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(hey, I was thinking I might be the only one left)
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(looked at man pages for that)
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(No manual entry for func)
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(which "Anna"?)
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(e-mail, mars)
If my mistake (in my CookBook/Matrix) is noted in any of those
bookmarked articles, I'll be getting to them any day now... But if
it's in some earlier article, either I didn't happen to see it
(Google Groups currently provides no reasonable way to find all
followups to what I previously posted, it's hit-and-miss whether
I'll chance to see some particular followup), or I saw it but
dismissed it as too vague to understand.

If you know of any article pointing out a mistake (in my
CookBook/Matrix) which is not yet corrected and not in that list of
bookmarks, please cite a line or two of text at the point of the
note-of-mistake, so that I can use Google Groups to find the full
article then use those 1-2 lines of text to find the specific place
within that article where the note-of-mistake appears.

If you want, I can issue a quick preliminary ACK as soon as I
see-and-bookmark your article, so you'll know I saw it. If I don't
see it within a couple days after you post it, I might never see
it, like I said due to no reasonable way to find all followups, so
you might then need to connect to my Web site and send me a instant
alert telling me the message-id of the article I see to have
missed. The quick-preliminary-ACK would be via the newsgroup of
course, and you might not see it. If you have a Web site with a
simple means to send you an instant alert, let me know the URL for
instructions how to do that, and I'll give it a try.

Actually, for something so short as just telling me two lines of
text in a note-of-mistake article I somehow overlooked, you might
just tell me in an instant alert in the first place, instead of
posting to a newsgroup and hoping I happen to find it, your choice
which contact method to try.

Not yet implemented, but hot on my mind: I might someday soon
finally implement CGI-SMTP. The server would run as a CGI
application, but would accept SMTP commands (all in one batch
instead of piecemeal-interactive), then it would process all the
commands in sequence and return a corresponding sequence of
responses. (Of course the server can do lookahead if it wants,
giving it an advantage over regular SMTP in blocking spam, such as
issuing a rejection of the RCPT TO command because the subsequent
message body is unacceptable for that recipient.) The client would
then interleave the saved original sequence of commands with the
returned sequence of responses and then act as if it had been a
regular SMTP interchange all along. If I implemented that, would
you use it to contact me directly in matters like errata in my
CookBook/Matrix?

The only was [sic] to get people to fully review it is to fix the
problems already pointed out and then ask for further review.

That's reasonable, except that I'm not aware of any outstanding
already-pointed-out problems, except what might be within the more
recent articles in that bookmark list. I'm going to make a mad dash
to try to catch up with my backlog. Stand by...

Regarding a possible sub-title to my CookBook/Matrix:
Adding, "written by someone inexperienced in C and other
languages" might help.

Not quite that, but maybe something like "this is a working
document, to try to gather together all the relevant information
about how to do the same set of tasks in up to six different
programming languages if possible, and to describe those
task-accomplishing methods (*) clearly/succinctly/unambiguously,
which is a learning experience for both the author and any early
proofreaders (both expert and newbie) that might turn up".

* ("method" used in the general sense, a way to accomplish
something, not in the OOP/Java/C++/CLOS sense)
.

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