Re: crawling the web

["Robert Raschke" <rtrlists@...>]

On 6/11/08, Matthew M. Burke <matthew@bluedino.net> wrote:
> Norman Ramsey wrote:
> > P.S. If I sound cranky, it's because I've spent 2 years working on
> > APIs for email management and spam filtering, and they are still too
> > complicated.  I will give a talk at the Lua Workshop in July.
> >
> Not to steal any thunder from your talk, but "too complicated" because of
> Lua or because it's just a tough problem to come up with a good API?

The latter, I would presume. Dealing with email programmatically is
one of these horrible problems that looks easy before you start. Just
the interface that allows navigating the parts of a MIME email can end
up remarkable ugly in no time at all (I've rewritten my take on this
three times already, and it's still crap).

Robby