Michael T. Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 22 July 2000 at 08:38:47
-0400
> I think a large number of people on this list need to spend more time actually
> listening to and considering people's concerns than simply saying 'thats not
> how we do things here'. Anyone else read DJB's discussions about being on the
> nameserver mailing list? I'm not being moderated out (I appreciate that), but
> the number of slams vs. useful responses to proposals is staggering.
>
> If all you have to say is "not my MTA, thank-you" then you may as well not
> bother. Silence does not mean consent. Especially in OSS.
You're bringing up an old, old, argued-to-death, topic, and displaying
ignorance of that history. People *do* hear what you're saying.
We've heard it all before. We've heard various responses before.
We've thought about it a lot. Our failure to accept your ideas is not
because we have not heard them; it's because we *have* heard them;
repeatedly. And the responses to them.
Probably our responses are by now somewhat cryptic, encoded in local
language that's completely clear to those of us who've been through
the argument umpteen times before. And which is probably NOT clear to
you; sorry about that!
Meanwhile, you're asking us to do all the work, *again*, to disprove
some claims that have been repeatedly disproved in the past. Sorry,
most of us are confident in our positions and don't feel a need to do
that much work.
Plus there's the DJB factor :-). Doesn't matter if you convince *us*
or not; qmail is not, in fact, open source software.
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