On or about Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:10:39 -0500, "Phillip M. Jones,
C.E.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> allegedly wrote:
>> Phillip, you're either more than typical "people that 'use the web, 'use' email,
>'use' newsgroups" or you're in the wrong place. These are developer newsgroups where
>people, busting their butts to make Mozilla better, are trying to get work done. If
>you are a part of that effort then you are more than just a user and I will hold your
>comments to a higher standard. If you are not a part of that effort then your posts
>belong in some other newsgroups.
>>
>> --Asa
This is actually a response to Asa's post. And I have no idea why
Agent isn't wrapping it.
Some of us end users would really like to see Mozilla succeed, but
find it frustrating that there appear to be zero -- nada -- zippo --
resources available. I appreciate the work the developers are doing,
but do not have the programming expertise to contribute myself. For
what it's worth, I already spend way too much time writing macros for
WordPerfect and InfoCentral, answering users' questions on those
products, and beta testing stuff for Corel to dedicate sufficient time
to rigorously beta test Mozilla and participate. My wife's ticked off
enough at me for all the time I spend on the computer as it is.
And yet, I would hope that Mozilla is not intended to be purely for
the tiny minority that are developing it. See, that's the Achilles
heel of open-source software: if it doesn't appeal to a programmer, it
won't get done. This is why so many Linux aficionados seem to think
that something like LaTEX is all one needs for word processing.
I am sure these are newsgroups for the developers, but damned if I can
find any other groups in which to discuss Mozilla. Best I can find is
"alt.fan.mozilla," which has a grand total of two (2) posts, both of
which are spam. There are no resources on mozilla.org or
mozillazine.org. There are no FAQs for users.
I would like to understand it better, and be able to point people
toward it. I would like to be able to tell people why they should use
Mozilla, what it can do, and how to use it efficiently. And I would
like to ask the occasional question myself. Example: I find it very
frustrating that Mozilla insists upon creating cryptic subdirectories,
often several levels deep, when I create a profile. And they're never
the same. Further, I don't want my cache in my profile, because I want
to synch computers without having to drag the cache directory around.
The name of the profile relates to the synchronization issue as well.
But as Microsoft would say, "that's not a bug, that's a feature." And
no one will respond to issues like this because I haven't learned the
secret handshake. Perhaps you don't want end-users trying Mozilla out,
but without some real world perspective on how the thing performs and
functions, it will fail. And yes, I know it is never intended to
displace Internet Explorer in market share, but unless Microsoft's
effort to turn the Web into its private playground is stopped and W3C
standards prevail over proprietary Microsoft garbage, Mozilla will
have failed.
---
Mike Koenecke
to reply, change "nowhere" to "home"
