Stephen Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No one person should be expected to answer all the questions in 
> detail.  What I'm asking is that the answers are effective.

  Then pay for effective answers.  It's as simple as that.

> That's a fallacy, and you know it.  If the technical support is sub-par, it 
> is less than free, it is worthless (or even harmful!).  And for the record, 
> I do not consider mailing lists (and other discussion groups, like forums) 
> "technical support", especially for open-source projects.

  See the list archives.  Many people have commented publicly that
this list yields better technical support than they've had for
commercial products.

> ... it doesn't hurt to have higher standards.

  Higher standards (or ANY standards at all) are pointless if no one
submits work.  Your statement is a snide attack on the developers of
the server, and the authors of the documentation.  It's inappropriate.

> If someone has been struggling to overcome a problem for some time,
> and that person looks for guidance, then that person should not be
> marginalized.

  I marginalized you by *answering* your questions?

  Or maybe I marginalized you because my answer asked you to do some
work?

> But it is a circular problem, if we don't know what the problem is,
> how can we write about it?

  I hope that you would eventually figure out the answer, at which
point you can write about it.

> I'll send you the URL, provide you with moderator status (and anyone
> else you deem).  I've populated some of it already, but I must get
> back to work now.

  Ok.

  Alan DeKok.

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