At 09:26 27/12/2000 -0500, jul wrote:
>I commend you for your ability to deal with unsolicited email (spam), but
>until groups such as this are hosted by a secure server, I will continue
>to use a munged email address. The generally accepted spirit of any news
>group is that a public message warrants a public response, and we all have
>the option to either reply back to the sender, to the news group, or to both.
However, this is both a mailing list and a newsgroup. Non existent mail
addresses are irritating.
>That said; my personal community effort here, is to encourage developers,
>who have diminished in numbers, to return. (See previous threads and
>comments regarding the influx of end user questions). If you do see any
>further mislabeled Off Topic posts, please assist the poster with a
>solution or recommendation, rather than labeling my community effort as an
>"off topic nazi".
Normally I would, you had a rash of them though that seemed over the top
until there is somewhere else for people to go to get the information they
want. I'm more than aware about issues regarding supporting
users/testers. None of the recent posts specified other distributions than
Mozilla itself.
>If you and your peers form a consensus to help as many users as possible
>with their concerns, I will then gladly step in with my input. About 95%
>of the off topic technical questions which I have labeled, could have been
>comprehensively answered by me, but I chose to redirect, instead. This
>appears to me to be the strongest request posted at mozilla.org.
Redirect by all means, just make sure its going to be somewhere useful.
Oh, btw, there is a Linux distribution of Beonex as well.
Simon
>Have a great day! ;-)
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>Simon P. Lucy wrote:
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>>At 16:55 26/12/2000 -0500, jul wrote:
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>>>Your substantive response to Mr. Lairo is enlightening, to say the least.
>>>Please qualify your statement in light of
>>><http://mozilla.org/releases/>, a quoted portion of which follows:
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>>Sorry, I'm not about to qualify what I say in any terms other than
>>someone asked a reasonable question. You might also take the time to not
>>use an anti-spamming address which is also against the spirit of these groups.
>>Simon
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