[Samba] Samba+CUPS+Driver autodownload

[Kurt Pfeifle]

  Mathias Homann admin at eregion.de

> Thu May 29 18:46:50 GMT 2003
> 
> 
> Am Donnerstag, 29. Mai 2003 14:39 schrieb Kurt Pfeifle:
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>>      http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/SambaPrintHOWTO/
> 
> Why on earth do people keep on insisting that imprints is useful and 
> functional?

Hi, Mathias,

yours is the first comment I read about that section. In fact, this section
comes from the old HOWTO collection, and I felt it was only appropriate to
keep it in, if the warning about its unmaintained status is made more
prominent and the call for volunteers is repeated.

> It's been dead since more than a year,

My draft says so and names a date: since December 2000.

> has never worked for me, and anybody 
> I've been mailing about imprints has not even had an active maintainer for 
> more than a year.
> 
> I'm the first to say that the idea _behind_ it is temptingm

That's why I feel it should not be just abandoned.

> but without anyone 
> actively maintining it, and without a reliable, working version out there, it 
> should not be mentioned as a _solution_.

OK -- this is open for discussion. If I hear more voices about it blowing
the same horn, it might go out...

> bye,
> 	MH

Cheers,
Kurt