Pascal Chevrel wrote: > > jesus X wrote: > > >>Sam wrote: >> >>>Please forgive any spelling mistakes or typos. My mail/news client >>>doesn't have a spell checker. Unfortunately I am not as perfect at >>>spelling and typing as all the mozilla developers. >>> >>I'll respond with a paraphrased suggestion I gave for the FAQ that was turned >>down for being too combative. We're not really concerned with your opinion as >>much as you feel we should be. But, seeing as how you're not really the target >>audience, this is forgivable. You would most likely be much happier with a >>distribution from a Mozilla distributor such as Netscape 6.2 or Beonex. >> >>The bottom line is that for all the carping about a spell checker, not ONE >>person has ponied up some code for Mozilla. Everyone is kinda sick of hearing >>about it, when no one seems willing to actually do the work. When I became >>active in the Mozilla community, it was because there was a particularly nasty >>bug that affected me, but few other people (in the grand scheme), and so had a >>somewhat low priority. Rather than bitch about it, I tried to find a way to >>help. Do you know what happened? The bug got fixed fairly quickly, and I became >>much more proactive. Try it sometime. >> > > Jesus, > > Users do as much as they can to help, they file bugs, promote the product, give > peer to peer support but you cannot ask them to be coders. The more popular Mozilla > will be, the more users you will hear asking for a spell checker. Remember that if > this is the nth time you answer this question, the person you answer is asking it > for the first time. What would you think If your local bookseller would tell you > that you are a lazy moaner or worse if you ask for a book which isn't released yet > just because everybody is asking for it ? wouldn't you think that this person is > rude and contempful ? > > pascal > > >
I honestly believe that Gerv et al have shown remarkable constraint in the first hundred posts on the subject. I've been a volunteer support person for the Navigator/Communicator groups for many years and you'd be amazed at how many times users post a question that has just been answered in the post directly above theirs only a matter of minutes before ... amazing !! -- Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org
