On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 03:07:46PM +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > On Sep 21, 2005, at 2:21 PM, Marc Haber wrote: >>On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:58:08 +0200, Jeremiah Foster [>>>> someone snipped Marc Sherman saying:] >>>>> config mechanisms quite aggressively, in an effort to handhold those >>>>> same clueless newbies. >>> So heartwarming to read in black-and-white the deep respect developers >>> have for users. >> As far as I know, Marc Sherman is neither affiliated with exim nor >> with Debian development. > Unfortunately calling users "clueless newbies" is not an aberration.
People not wishing to read documentation, but instead preferring to waste others' time and effort by arguing on a mailing list about how they'd like their particular bits of the documentation to be spoonfed them can be afforded no other or better description. You will note, please, that the use of the term "clue" does not refer to actual knowledge, but more to the attitude of acquiring that knowledge. The spec file is 27,000+ lines long, because everyone wants something slightly different out of their mail system, thus there are a multitude of features to understand. I also feel that just because you can get SMTP running as easily as you can install Debian doesn't mean you should. It took a very long time to solve the Open Relay problem, and there are yet more (with all the people who want to provide reliable mail service on the end of their consumer DSL lines) problems to come. With the spam problem that we face, having people who, by their own admission, are not prepared to read the full documentation for their MTA software, running mail systems does not seem to me to be the best way to solve it. Cheers MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/ (Please use this address to reply) -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
