On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 20:46 -0700, Collins Richey wrote: > I agree 100%, Brett, but we are in the minority.
Look it was me who raised the OT-ness of this thread and if you read back I kind of withdrew my complaint and apologised. There is a line somewhere, and the related problem in this case is how easy it is to get info on the pros and cons of mbox vs maildir by a very simple google search. As for the direction the thread took, ie how to *convert*, that too could have been asked in a different way - theres a big difference in the annoyance factor of the following two methods of posing a question: very annoying: "how do i convert mbox to maildir?" IMHO quite acceptable: "I want to convert half a dozen pop3 mbox mailstores to maildir with minimal disruption. I have googled and found a number of scripts for this, but I am not sure what is the best approach, as they all seem to have pros and cons. A tool that is in portage or that people have tested on a gentoo system would be nice" > [It seems that] most > on the lists are purists. Look this is a nice list, nice people, helpful community etc. But it does get a bit long winded and very OT sometimes. Honestly the question about mbox conversion to maildir would have been answered a lot more authoritatively on comp.mail.imap - sometimes its about using the best "tool" for the job. I see questions on here that get flailed about by people guessing and being semi-informed - whereas if the question had been asked in a more appropriate forum, the canonical answer would have been quickly available. > Why, you can't even ask a question about > catalyst (which should be a perfectly legitimate Gentoo subject) > without being told: get thee to the catalyst list. well there is a specialised list for catalyst, it is mainly a dev tool and many devs do not appear to be on this list, and when someone has a similar problem to yours they will hopefully find the answer in that list's archive :-) > > Sigh. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
