From: Brett Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I don't have the resources to do it, but I would like it. Do you have
Lots of lists for pros, that's all fine... I just expect that the newbie
bashing and bad manners stop in *this* list... or is this list to continue
to be a sink for frustrated personalities? Is the good content to go away ?
I'm worried about the efects on qmail of all this. There are already
probably too many factors discouraging the use of qmail on a wider scale:
1) Dan's anti-packaging policy (which in fact creates most of the newbie
queries, therefore defeating the simplicity of support argument)
2) Increasing dependency in other packages, such as uscpi-tcp and
daemontools, that are arguably harder to use (more powerfull of course, but
that's a different issue)
3) Newbie bashing on the main support list
4) Badly disguised manouvers to create a qmail maintaners guild or two, that
as all guilds profits from the seclusion of knowledge. Next stop is qmail
certification, I bet, and then "redhatification".
5) Proliferation of patches (effectively, the patches are forks from the
base code), to address issues that should be addressed by the base package
(eg the big concurrency patch or the qmail-verh patch). Same goes for things
like vpopmail, that is, not patches but certainly add-ons that should be in
the base package (and meeting Dan's high quality standards).
Given the above, it is no wonder that people increasingly use sendmail or
such.
Armando
