How not to handle bugreports.

David Woodhouse reports on a bug in Evolution he reported ages ago where Evolution wasn't acting RFC-compliant, which meant that it was impossible for it to communicate with some MTA's in their default configuration.

At the time, the evolution (upstream) maintainers claimed it wasn't a bug, and that he should fix his mailservers instead. While the RFC clearly states the contrary. David rightfully called the evolution maintainers idiots in his blog post.

The patch did eventually get applied, however, so all was well. However, then the guy whom he called an idiot took offense at being called so, and started reverting fixes for bugs, and even closing valid ones, just because they were filed by David Woodhouse.

Way to go. Someone use the cluebat, please. And the LART.