On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 23:24:19 PM -0500, William Case
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Being flustered has turned to being frustrated.
>
> This is the third set of sites I have been told to join before
> anyone will open a discussion on how OOo might be better "sold".
sorry, why does this frustrate you? At least in this case, all I can
see is that you have been told to subscribe to a mailing list, so you
can exchange ideas via email more efficiently with all the people who
could do what you suggest. Nobody asked you to join as in "pay money
or commit to work at least X hours a week on OpenOffice" or anything
similar, did they? And you can of course unsubscribe from a mailing
list as soon as the problem is over or you get tired of the
discussion.
> I suspect the agenda is already set, and the various lists have just
> been created to get people to move on and leave every body else alone.
More than an agenda being set (at least on the structure of the
website) it's probably that the current structure of the website is so
rigid (technically and burocratically) that it takes the Space Shuttle
to actually move it in _any_ direction. That's why, in the past,
places like ooauthors.org were born. No conscious conspiracy there.
Mailing lists are simply THE fastest way for groups of sparse people,
especially volunteers scattered over the globe, to communicate via
email. They're the way things get done in such contexts. Subscribing
and unsubscribing is free and automated, everybody gets all the
messages without people creating aliases manually, public archives are
kept for future references, etc... That's it. Unless you thought that
writing at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any of those lists is equivalent to
speaking directly with Sun or Collabra *managers*.
Hope this helps,
Marco
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