also sprach egarff:
> I hate to rant,
Then don't. (Remainder snipped.)
The point is that by pointing the original poster to the documentation, he
might actually do *his* *own* *homework* (horrors!). In the process, he
might actually learn something more than what he was asking.
For instance, what if, after his original question, he asked, ``What are the
valid formats for lines in a .qmail file?'' Or what if he didn't ask but was
curious? Wow, that appears in the dot-qmail manpage as well.
Further, Mr. Cazabon did NOT treat anyone ``like an idiot''. He *did* say,
basically, RTFM even while pointing out the exact FM. What exactly would you
have him do, reproduce the documentation for the mailing list everytime the
question comes up? That's why there is documentation at all!
One last interesting comment: In two years of running qmail on about six or
seven different machines in different environments, I have *never* (that I
can remember) found the documentation lacking. Chaotic or not, the qmail
home page at <http://www.qmail.org/> is as comprehensive as anything I've
ever seen.
/pg
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Peter Green : Gospel Communications Network, SysAdmin : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they
like to heed."
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