This email is one big "I can't really do what I said I could do, and
would be easy to do" message.  This is getting sad, Marco, it really
is.

-CHad Smith

On 7/25/05, M. Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 23:12:51 PM +0100, CPHennessy
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Monday 25 July 2005 00:38, M. Fioretti wrote:
> > >
> > > May I friendly suggest, in YOUR interest, that you just stop cold
> > > turkey running in this Guinea pig wheel for a couple of weeks,
> > > and use that same time to ask for help directly to the procmail list
> > > and/or some friend at the closest LUG?
> >
> > Thanks for your insighfulness Marco. If it was meant to encourage me
> > to do something I'm really not sure.
> 
> Of course it was meant to help.
> 
> > But making fun of me (and others) helping OOo novice users will not
> > help you.
> 
> DISCLAIMER: Believe it or not, expecialy while reading the last part
> of this message, I am *not* making fun of you. I am trying really hard
> to help, politely suggesting what couldf be done.
> 
> I am not making fun of *you* personally or any other volunteers. I
> never did. I do appreciate, sincerely, all your good will and
> devotion, and have never doubted of it. What I do have great
> difficulties to take seriously is only the method which you all insist
> using. I'm trying to help you and OO.o to change that.
> 
> > I'm still waiting for you to ignore [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a few weeks to
> > put a procmail solution together since you seem to know it so well.
> 
> See? (Answering also to others) *this* attitude is exactly why I have
> never bothered, in the past, to work out and test the details. The
> attitude going from lack of interest from else who could actually run
> it, saving his own time, to the several variations of "*I* don't
> understand one bit of what you suggested, so *you* must be a puffed up
> moron".
> 
> Now let's be serious and practical, please. I have already explained
> that since you are the one that should run it on your own Linux setup,
> it would sensibly speed things up if *you* could spare a couple of
> weeks from patroling the lists, and test/tweak the procmail
> recipes. Yesterday I *did* subscribe to the procmail mailing list, to
> ask for help from the gurus in that field.
> 
> So, CPH, I friendly but seriously suggest again:
> 
> 1) You subscribe today to the procmail mailing list:
>    http://mailman.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/procmail, suspending
>    OO.o service for a couple of weeks. The world won't come to an end.
> 2) I send the initial request to that list  for help, explaining the
>    detail of the problem.
> 3) You test on your box what they suggest
> 4) I promise to help you directly for any "side" issue (initial
>    installation and configuration of procmail, sending test messages,
>    this kind of things)
> 
> I will do 2) by myself in any case, just for the fun of it, but doing
> it together as above would be much more effective.
> 
> >Looking forward to you contributions,
> 
> Looking forward to any real sign of willingness from the OO.o
> volunteers/list moderators to change the status quo.
> 
> So? What do you say? I am ready, are you?
> 
> CIao,
>         Marco
> 
> --
> Marco Fioretti                    mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
> Fedora Core 3 for low memory      http://www.rule-project.org/
> 
> Those who will be able to conquer software will be able to conquer the
> world.                      -- Tadahiro Sekimoto, president, NEC Corp.
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-Chad Smith

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