Michael Str?der:
> Reasons why there is no such HOWTO maintained for a long time:
> 
> People asking for HOWTOs are not capable writing decent HOWTOs. If they went
> through their own learning curve leading to good working results they usually
> have no interest to share the insights with others. They simply use free
> software as free beer.

This segment also contains may people whose primary responsibility
is not maintaining a mail server. These want "tell me what do to,
I don't want to learn" advice.

> Authors of existing HOWTOs loose interest to spend the time keeping up with
> current development. (That's understandable given the amount of unpaid time
> needed to make high-quality docs.)

I had hoped that some of th professional sysadmins would take
this up, since they are caring for Postfix etc. across software
releases. Perhaps they are a dying breed.

        Wietse

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