On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:10:23PM +0100, Álvaro J. Iradier wrote: > On Jan 21, 2008 5:53 PM, Youness Alaoui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > 1 - Sending a personal message to one of the developers is NOT how you ask > > a question. There is an IRC channel and there are forums for that kind of > > questions. > > I answered him, I see no problem. I even suggested a small patch to > save the plugins.xml file, commenting out. I might have not answered > at all, it depends on the mud :) > > I think he's free for mailing a developer, if the developer address is > public. The developer is free to point him to the right place, just > ignore him, blame him, or set fire to his car, depending on his/her > particular sense of humor. >
Ok, that's because *you* don't mind, and I know everyone can feel different, but for me, I just get frustrated and burn their cars when I get a PM (even on the forums) where the questions hould be public.. I usually answer 'use the forums, PMs are only accepted if previously authorized for reasons like sending your password or other sensible data". If you don't mind, it's your choice! Problem is that emails are not public, but people can just mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] and that, you can do nothing about it unfortunately... The reason is simply because imagine the 30+ questions a day that are asked all getting into your inbox.. 1 - it's too much and you can't handle it 2 - it doesn't allow others to answer, like those faithful 'power users' on the forums 3 - it would render the forums and IRC pointless.. > > 2 - Alvaro, the mailing list is for development related issues, so next > > time, redirect the user to the forums since that kind of questions are > > prohibited in the developer's mailing list. > > > I've received many personal messages, and I haven't forwarded them to > the mailing list. I was forwarding the mail because it wasn't clear > for me why the plugins were not saved. Now it's clear. I don't think > this question was out of scope. If you thought it wasn't worth the > explanation, then there was no need for an answer. Being picky, > amsn-devel description is "Mailing list for developers and everyone > helping AMSN" so being a developer you can mail jokes or talk about > the weather ;) > > Anyways, I'll be more stricter next time. > Yeah, I know it wasn't clear, which is why I took the time to answer :p don't just read what I say, notice also if I do respond or not, if I respond it's because I think there's a need, otherwise, I would have ignored it or redirected to the forums with no other answer. The mailing list has a purpose for discussion development related issues, and is for developers only, it's been like that for a while now and we don't let user's questions 'polute' the mailing list. We always answer to use the forums. Sometimes I even want to answer that to developers who ask 'user-ish questions' :p > > 3 - That decision was made long ago and it stirred a few questions and was > > discussed a lot. The decision is kept there, for security reasons, the > > default profile should not save any plugin's config, pop3 password, choices > > of plugins, etc.. someone could even write up a 'password saver' plugin > > and load it in the default profile so anyone who uses his PC will get their > > passwords stolen.. and considering the amount of people using aMSN in > > public internet cafes, we can't allow that. > > 4 - Yes, the display picture is kept between sessions of a default profile, > > it's a known issue, and it's in the TODO. If you don't save your account, > > the display picture should be forgotten. > > Thanks, then the bug is saving some options for default profile, not > forgetting the settings. It's clear now. > Yep! btw, if you/he needs more info on that, there's a whole thread about this in the mailing list archives that you can look up and read about it. > > Greets. > > > -- > (:===========================================:) > Alvaro J. Iradier Muro - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Amsn-devel mailing list > Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
