On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Brendan Oakley wrote: > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Michael M Slusarz wrote: > >> Or do the search yourself: >> >> http://www.horde.org/community/mail/ >> >> I can also almost guarantee if you search for my name and "signature" and >> either "stupid" or "dumb" or "signatures in the compose body is the most >> idiotic UI decision we ever made and thank god we have fixed it" you will >> get some useful search results will reams of unchallenged discussion on why >> the old method was terrible. > > I went to this mailing list page and did a search for "slusarz > signature stupid idiotic" and got 1 result, which is a long series of > lots of unrelated threads from 2011. Incidentally, searching for > "signature" in the mailing list is pointless, because apparently some > signatures are appended as attachments with signature in the name.
Reading through about half of the most active discussion in that result, another debate remarkably similar in tenor to this one, but regarding how a user is to experience Reply-All vs. Reply, there is a suggestion to do a google search for "reply all horror stories." I find this ironic in this context of effective searching for correct answers, because that search does indeed find many relevant results, all of which demonstrate conclusively the correct answer, which was being dogmatically defined as wrong, stupid, and idiotic. I am seeing a pattern in these discussions. I don't want to point fingers, but I would respectfully and gently suggest that the current approach to answering questions and comments be reconsidered. There are two sides to every story, and development theory and the real world can sometimes be at odds. That requires thoughtful reconciliation, not just dismissal. The purpose of this software is live deployment for broad user consumption, after all, isn't it? Thanks Brendan -- imp mailing list Frequently Asked Questions: http://wiki.horde.org/FAQ To unsubscribe, mail: imp-unsubscr...@lists.horde.org
