I tried to email the following to you (Jay) personally, but your server
said
host jaygarcia.com[192.220.109.252] said: 550 5.0.0 Server
Does Not Like You Go Away
I am assuming that is because of the broken MAPS DUL
<http://www.bucksch.com/1/opinion/dul/>, not because I am blocked
personally. Jay, please fix your server.
Anyways,
Jay Garcia wrote:
> I'm trying very hard to get a user-group started elsewhere on this
> server
See the mozilla.org newsgroup renaming bug on how long that can take.
1.5 years and not a single action on the part of Netscape.
> but in the meantime we'll just have to suffer the pain of
> quieting the masses.
No, "we" don't have suffer, and you are not quieting them, you are
encouraging them by answering them. If one looks at the group right now,
he must think that he is completely right with user questions.
Why don't you just answer per email? That's what the nettiquette
dictates, when something is offtopic and there's no more appropriate group.
> And FWIW, several PAID Netscape programmers have personally passed
> along "atta-boys" for helping in the Mozilla groups whilst NEVER
> referring to the "users" as unwashed masses ..
Well, I don't know, but they have their Netscape meetings and
face-to-face talks, while I have only the newsgroup to stay in touch
with the other developers. Bugzilla doesn't give the big picture.
Currently, I lost completely track of what is going on with Mailnews.
I don't think it's wrong that I am annoyed about 75 messages per day (!)
coming into my mailbox (if the newsgroup->mail gateway bug were not
there), *all* being offtopic, but hard to identify as such. That's much
worse than spam, both in quantity and time.
