Re: [hylafax-users] Control of signaling rate?

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you're dealing with a typical human-to-machine interface then I agree 
that the best thing to do is to error-out.  So in this case sendfax 
probably shouldn't ignore the incorrect "-B 1200" parameter.

But if we're talking about machine-to-machine interfaces, then sometimes 
it's best to "be liberal in what we accept, conservative in what we 
send" so that we don't get people into situations where nothing happens 
and they aren't likely to see the error message, either.  So if we're 
talking about what faxq or faxsend should do, then I tend to believe 
that those programs need to "think for" the user.

But yes, I'd say this is a case where someone should file a bug report.  
I try to get those from the user community involved in submitting these 
kinds of non-critical user-related bug reports in order to attempt some 
greater involvement by them in the development process.  Otherwise I 
could probably spend all day filing bug reports and never get any of 
them fixed.  :-)

Lee.


Laker Netman wrote:

> Typical programming paradigm is "if the software can't
> do what's requested it shouldn't do anything" (except
> perhaps create a log entry indicating something did or
> didn't happen as expected or notify someone via some
> other mechanism). So, it's better classified a bug in
> this case. However, if an option is available (and
> apparently there isn't at this time) to 
> configure the behavior then it's a feature.
>
> So is anyone submitting a bug report? :)
>
> Laker
>
> --- Loren Card <Loren_Card@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > > > Is that a bug or a feature?
> > > >
> > > >        
> > > I'm not sure what to call it when the user does
> > >      
> > something incorrect but 
> >    
> >
> > > then the software compensates.
> > >      
> > Yeah, I dunno what they call that either, I just
> > know what they call *me*...
> >
> > Thanks again for your help!
> >
> > ./Loren
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