I in fact wrote a bash script to send grade mail as well (from the
exported gnumeric spreadsheet as text) but that's just because the
provided tool for grading sucked and was in tcl/tk and I didn't want to
touch it. The university should be in the business of providing grading
tools; they shouldn't expect every TA to write their own.
So your argument is that even though this is what you did, it is still a
bug, and people should expect other people to write programs that do
things exactly the way that THEY the USER want it done. Not to be a jerk,
because I was really just commenting on the use of the commandline, but
this is exactly what is happening _here_. People are writing in saying
they want the program that other people are writing to do what they want,
and you are saying what they want is wrong.
Brent