James Kosin wrote:
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Jim Maul wrote:
Maybe i missed it, but where in his original email did he ask anyone
to help him by doing something for him? From what i can see, he
didnt even ask for help at all. The way i took it was:
Gee, I downloaded this package for clamav and installed it and now
there are all sorts of other things that still need to be done to
get it working correctly. Maybe clamav developers could work with
the package maintainers to make this process go more smoothly?
To which he received responses like:
Your an idiot.
We dont care.
Shut up and stop posting crap like this to the list.
To me it seems like everyone missed the point and made their own
assumptions as to what he *really* meant. Maybe the title was
worded poorly, or his post looked too similar to others that people
have seen in the past and it triggered an immediate negative
response from them, or maybe its just that some people on this list
havent gotten any lately and are grumpy - who knows. But to berate
someone like this over a post they made which i believe was
interpreted incorrectly to begin with is completely wrong. I mean
cmon, the subject clearly states its directed at packagers. Give
the guy a flippin break.
-Jim
Ok,
I'm usually very patient when it comes to responses to email's like
this. But, I believe he is really asking the wrong people. He should
be going to the package maintainers. This group is usually content
with compiling and installing directly from source.
Are they really no package maintainers on this list? I find that hard
to believe. Is it really necessary to punish someone for thinking that
maybe, just maybe, a message about clamav packages on the clamav-users
list might actually get seen by some packagers themselves?
Like Dennis said "Bringing it all together is what the admin is for."
ClamAV is a powerful tool; but, would you give a chainsaw to your
2-year old to use.... I think not.
Everyone has to learn. There is no shortcuts when it comes to being a
sysadmin, no matter what level you are. You can make things easier;
but, usually at a cost. No one here is willing to make ClamAV a
butter knife when it is already a chainsaw.
Of course. Im not saying i completely agree with everything the OP
wrote. Im simply saying that i believe people misinterpreted what he
was ultimately trying to say, and then insulted him because of it.
-Jim
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