One of the things I wish for every so often is the ability to downgrade Linuxdistributions, not just upgrade them (which is common and generally wellsupported; I can think of only one large Linux distribution withoutupgrade support, and you can argue that Red Hat Enterprise Linux isa special case). This wouldn't be as good as various forms of 'liveupgrade', but it would still be useful and it would certainly makeme a lot less nervous about doing upgrades.

Conceptually, a downgrade is

Sparked by Pete Zaitcev ,here's a thought: why don't I use Fedora Rawhide? That's a seriousquestion, since I'm sort of in the natural target audience; I've gotthe skills and the general interest and willingness, and I run and haverun relatively bleeding edge versions of various things (at one pointincluding kernels, although I've gotten lazy since then).

In thinking about it, what it comes down is that while I can standirritations, I

With most spammers, it's pretty easy to see what they're spamming, thatis to say what they expect to get out of their spam; what their productor their scam or their cause is. But sometimes I run into spammers, evenpersistent spammers, where I can't figure out why they're spamming, whatbenefit they expect to get out of it.

One such persistent case is what I will call the 'conference spammers',who keep sending us email for various obscure-