On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:18:40 +0000, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:00:47PM +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote:
>> Jeremy C. Reed --> netbsd-users (2004-11-18 09:48:06 -0800):
>> > We used to be able to email to query-pr@ to retrieve the PR with
>> > Subject: --full 26908
>> 
>> Too bad this service ceased. Does anybody know why?
> 
> It stopped because someone repeatedly conducted denial-of-service
> attacks on it by flooding us with mail that did large queries.  We
> decided that, though it was a convenient service to have, it was
> not worth the maintenance hassle (very few people actually used it).

Thanks for your explanation. Is there now a canonical way to get 
non-HTML-crippled patches from GNATS? Otherwise send-pr'ing patches
would be useless.

For example, CVSweb allows downloading files in non-HTML form with http.

Bye	Pavel