On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> of the message this was in response to which appears to be what Lamar was > responding to. Besides, there's a far cry from a message of constructive > criticism and the message this was in response to. The point that the > documentation and reality need to match up is a good one, but saying > that "It's wrong because it's different from what worked before" isn't > reasonable. Saying, "This change is unfortunate and did it really have > to happen and why? And the documentation and the server realities really > have to match up. Perhaps changing the page first with a note of both > configurations with an estimated time change for the server would have > been better/the right way to do this" is reasonable. > How many people use anonymouse CVS? Hundreds? Thousands? Tens of thousands? You must have been fixing a pretty serious problem to justify inconveniencing them all. And if it really is that serious, add a word of explanation (to forestall problem reports) and apology. That is the point of my complaint. If it was just me, I'd shrug my shoulders and (once I figured out how) get on with it. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster