but as i responded to rich salz - albeit of list...
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oh, no offence intended...
just wanted to know how active the list was cause compared to the other lists im on there doesnt seem to be that many posts.
thought i was on the wrong list...
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probably an oversight on my part in hitting the reply button as opposed to the replyall.
hope you have a nice lunch today! im goin home in half an hour... gotta love that timezone difference
Charles B Cranston wrote:
Ronan wrote:
is this list just not that active or do the people on it honestly not know the answers??
Well, let's consider some OTHER hypotheses:
1. The question is so easy that everybody thinks someone else will answer it. That is, the old hands say "oh, not AGAIN!!!" and are just bone tired of answering the same questions over and over again, even though the answers are in the FAQ, while those of us who are relatively new to the list but DO know the answers sometimes jump in and, in a spirit of gratitude to the old hands who got us to where we are today, try to answer the question.
2. The question is so hard that the few who could really answer it have printed it out and taken it to lunch with them, so they can really analyze the situation without being interrupted by phone calls from pointy-haired bosses yada yada.
3. The question is incomprehensible due to being expressed in such a broken form of English that even a native speaker cannot quite puzzle out what is being asked. I say this as a person who has been struggling to learn a foreign language all my life (on and off) and I must say that I have the greatest sympathy for someone who is trying to learn English as a second language -- yes, it is a REALLY difficult language, but that doesn't help us understand your question any better. Is there any English speaker around there who can help you with making the question more understandable?
4. The question exposes some inherent flaw in the design and/or implementation of the software, and everybody who has invested ego in the software is somewhat embarrased and hence reticent to reply.
There are probably more. But I suggest you review the recent exchanges I had with Bilal Shahid.
On Nov 2 he posted some general questions about certificates and calling the "openssl ca" function to generate them.
On Nov 2 I read this posting, and didn't understand why he framed the question in quite the way he did, so I tried to diagnose what information he didn't have that would cause a question to be asked in such a way, and I then responded with a list of what I thought might be documentation likely to supply that missing information.
On Nov 3 he posted a description of two scenarios he titled Case 1 and Case 2.
On Nov 3 I read the scenarios and replied with a fairly complete analysis of his Case 1 and why the failure he was seeing was most probably happening. I also answered some of his questions about how two certificate extensions interact, and explained how the command line arguments to openssl ca were causing the information on what extensions to add to the certificate were coming from two different sections in probably two different configuration files.
This is hardly commeasurate with your complaint.
As it happens, I have done no actual programming with the OpenSSL library, though I've had extensive experience in using OpenSSL from the command line, and loosely linked to from Perl and C, so I don't personally have the knowlege to answer your question of 4:18 this morning, however, I don't think it is appropriate to post a complaint at 6:39 the same morning. I don't think you can expect free advice with a less than 3 hour turnover, especially when the US is asleep. (Guess I'm assuming Netscape has converted GMT to EST right... :-)
Who knows? Maybe somebody printed out your question and is reading it over his lunch, like I did with Bilal's second post...
-- Regards
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