--- "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think he's referring to the phenomenon that > I've seen on way too > > many technical mailing lists: be a complete > asshole and you'll get > > the complete and undivided attention of multiple > developers and power > > users, all of of whom assert, while helping, that > that's not a good > > way to get help. :-) > > > > Best way to do it is to impugn the quality of the > product, and > > threaten to switch to another. > > > > (By the way, the OP's subject line was a work of > art along these > > lines. The 'us', rather than 'me', raising the > prospect of a huge > > group of people disappointed in Samba, was > particularly nice. I take > > my hat off.) > > > > I'm pretty sure a lot of posters have noticed > this and use it to > > their advantage. You do have to be kind of > unprincipled first... > > :-) > > > > > Ack! I didn't mean to imply as much as it looks > like I did about the OP > and his motives. I was more focused on a social > phenomenon that I'd > noticed. The subject line *was* a work of art, but > that's not quite > saying the poster is a (con) artist. > > For the record, I do not believe he is an asshole, > or unprincipled. I > am an agnostic on the subject.
Thanks! * I used the word "us" because it was everybody in my IT department, the printing departement, the DP department... some 100+ people who heavily depend on Samba. It let _us_ down. Didn't think about the implications of "us" vs. "me." * It is always important to know the context. The very first paragraph of the subject went something like: "I'm sharing my sad experience so that the Samba community can learn and grow." Never would I impugn the quality of Samba; After all, it could have been something we were doing wrong. We use Samba elsewhere and really like "sticking it to Bill." Of course we don't overlook the stability, speed, cost, security, open source, flexibility, etc... * We actually were in the process of switching; No threats! (-: At that point, I was only sharing to help enlighten the community; Turning back was not an option. * I don't believe I'm an asshole, either (-: I always attempt to have this attitude: "I could be completely wrong." The story had a happy ending. The NT server's new hard drive died, so we kept hobbling along on Samba. When we disabled all OpLocks, all was well. We are coming up on a week of constant stability, no corruption, and no interruptions in browsing the server's hard drive. Samba is looking gooooooood. /dev/idal __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba