Received: from sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.191] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UFqxl-0002K6-UE for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:03:45 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from mail-ve0-f172.google.com ([209.85.128.172]) by sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1UFqxk-0004e7-Lo for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:03:45 +0000 Received: by mail-ve0-f172.google.com with SMTP id cz11so1060320veb.3 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:03:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :x-gm-message-state; bh=fDgZJEMP31Jof68pyauaYkhlaNkR/BotAF4Tlauag8I=; b=eAMFKllWMPSUr2kf32RUhoI+rDOOSLUA4qWh9IwUCDZgaKN8zMeGD2ovMeHQ7RUiRH S6ZLL9vjg/T/Za3zgyDLMTWOkCYsO4PhFP2SPka1CIrilfXAmuZttMM2hzykni9Qi2OD itYHniBPupv6XZ4Hf39kJ0uwzMY2p6LramAWrgaLWGL54St8D620xr9HYKURl+INWY2G Frg8USd3l3DEwtTGS6L0Pw0MFucL/wsqTesR5Rm5BZuEzV6uI1t4Natd8QKfltW3KIg+ vEv6QDBnbzsTufaoT3R3F1q3l8jmRFpPWo12os8Gt8LhEcm18VYD4SGhUJgzBH0Kpywm 0Ikw== X-Received: by 10.58.253.161 with SMTP id ab1mr8717111ved.55.1363199741843; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:35:41 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: marek@palatinus.cz Received: by 10.58.151.73 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:35:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201303131256.30144.luke@dashjr.org> <20130313175825.GA21242@vps7135.xlshosting.net> From: slush Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:35:11 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: q02509CuF8bkJ7wG21p3fGDo_vI Message-ID: To: Mark Friedenbach Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7bdc9c105ef88e04d7d2ac08 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQl4Imk8mT5NX+QDV+ClxXLagJBoLjvTXYgKQducr0d7KQfM5S2R1ukApusNTSinR1CZ/1J7 X-Spam-Score: 1.0 (+) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (slush[at]centrum.cz) 1.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message X-Headers-End: 1UFqxk-0004e7-Lo Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.8.1 ideas X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:03:46 -0000 --047d7bdc9c105ef88e04d7d2ac08 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Agree. I quite like Mark's proposal. Yes, formally it is hard fork. But the step 4) can come very far in the future, when the penetration of <0.8 clients will be mininimal. slush On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Mark Friedenbach wrote: > This problem is very clearly a *bug* in the old codebase. So let's be > forward thinking and do what we would do in any other situation: fix the > bug, responsibly notify people and give them time to react, then move on. > Let's not codify the bug in the protocol. > --047d7bdc9c105ef88e04d7d2ac08 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Agree. I quite like Mark's proposal. Yes, formally it is hard fork. But= the step 4) can come very far in the future, when the penetration of <0= .8 clients will be mininimal.

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On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Mark Friedenbach <mark@monetize.io>= wrote:
This problem is very clearly a *bug* in the old codeb= ase. So let's be forward thinking and do what we would do in any other = situation: fix the bug, responsibly notify people and give them time to rea= ct, then move on. Let's not codify the bug in the protocol.
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