At the risk of been flame big time, and that's fine, I would however
suggest that questions on misc@ follow the same criteria as the support
for the OS it's self.
Meaning, a new release come out, then support on the oldest is drop and
only the last two are supported.
Shouldn't support or question on misc@ follow the same policy.
Over many years, I keep seeing many issues that are simply fix in new
release, but that many users asked about and don't want to upgrade to
the latest one to fix their problem.
Just like the ethical things to do before asking question on misc@ is to
do your homework, isn't it proper to asked the same thing for question
on the OS in use?
Make sense to me.
I guess if someone doesn't want to give himself/herself the trouble to
upgrades, why anyone here should then try to fix an issue already fix in
new release?
I don't know, may be I am just to narrow minded, but really upgrading
the servers are so easy and Nick does an incredible job at providing the
instructions on doing so that I can't see the point of not doing it really.
I know may will tell me that their system is so complex and would take
so much time to upgrade that I don't understand them or their setup.
Great then, if that's the argument used that I don't understand their so
complex setup, why asked for help in that case as it is so complex that
no one would understand it. That's the catch 22 I tell you.
If it is so complex not to be upgraded by a process so simple, then how
can someone justify asking for help on something so complex that no one
else could understand as upgrade is impossible to do I asked?
I don't know, but I think this would help provide even more wide testing
for latest release and if there is real issues with it, would get fix
sooner and at the same time all users would benefit from something even
more stable if that's even possible and then the level of question on
misc@ might also diminish, or been about more actual issue that may be
more users might be interested in.
I don't know, but that's my take on it.
If one can't give himself/herself the pain to upgrade, I sure don't see
why anyone else should give themselves the pain to support it either!
Regards,
Daniel
