To this day, I am surprised at the number of people who complain about the Journal's binary storage format. Having spent years working as a system administrator, and after years of working with and on syslog-ng - in the capacity of maintainer of the Open Source Edition for more than a year -, I am increasingly puzzled about all the hostility towards non-text storage formats. I am even more puzzled about the arguments against it. Maybe I'm living in a different world, but there are very, very ...