Dear Sir, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 08:04:27AM +0100, Thorsten Volkmer-Wolf wrote: > I'm glad to see that there are still people here who really want to help and haven't > forgotten > that once upon a time they also were beginners. <off topic> that you may have forgotten to who ntop-users are beholden to: there would be nothing to say about _anything_ on this list but for the developers. It is their sacrifices, their talents and their labour; no one elses. They are entitled to respect; anything more concrete in the way of appreciation; patches if they are wrong; or as you suggest _silence_. Lists that do not have the sort of challenging informal moderation - not without a cost I might add - are damned to mediocrity and stupidity. Have a look at Nagios-users if you don' think so. Lastly, the remarks about nsh were off topic; there was as much a case for condemning gratuitous remarks about a topic the writer has little hard information on and certainly nothing to offer in the way of help should the reader run into trouble. Please think about how active this gentleman has been in addressing genuine issues and what an unbelievably rich source of help and teaching he is. The thrust of this letter is that open source developers need to be _cared_ for. .. snip .. > > Regards, > > Thorsten > </off topic> Yours sincerely. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stanley Hopcroft ------------------------------------------------------------------------ '...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...' from Meditation 17, J Donne. _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
