On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 21:35, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 13:22, Tony Earnshaw wrote: > > ons, 2002-10-30 kl. 20:58 skrev Dan Winship: > > > > > He was responding to a direct question. > > > > Then "his" answer should have been (given the boasted prowess): "How can > > I help?" > > OK, my turn now. I was asked "you've never done this, have you?". I > responded "yes, I have, for this long and doing this". Your extension > of this to say I should have said "how can I help" is bulls**t, plain > and simple. I got this package to fill a specific need. If the response > to a request, and then a question asked directly of me and answered > directly by me, is name-calling and "put up or shut up", then this is > probably not the software to use, nor is it anything to recommend to > anyone who might want to use it. > > My bottom line is, I don't have time to waste fixing bugs or adding > functionality to other people's software. I have my own job where I > spend quite enough time. I need an email application that does what I > need it to do, and there are some out there. I apparently made a > mistake in choosing this, then having the utter temerity to suggest > better behavior. And I would have hoped that the response to a question > of "why can't it do this" would have been something other than invective > and personal attacks. Apparently I was wrong. > well, the personal attack was from Tony, who does not represent the feeling of all the evolution hackers and users. So please, don't make the mistake to judge a whole project based on one person's opinions.
Apart from that, please let's stop this thread. I think it's been clearly stated what the situation of copy&paste is, and that we are working on fixing it, so it's useless to continue discussing it. cheers -- Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
