> It's understandable that as a flying newbie, you would think that
> handed a set of keys, it would be "up to you" to know how to use
> the plane.
I would? I know that planes are fairly complicated and dangerous pieces of
machinery and that a pilot's license is required to fly legally in most
parts of the world. If you or anyone else gave me the keys to a plane and
said, "Take off," I'd politely return the keys and say no thanks.
On the other hand, if someone held a gun to my head and said "Fly the damn
plane," or if I was stuck on a desert island with just myself and the
plane, I'm pretty sure that with a little work on my part, I could probably
figure out how to start the engine and get the plane off the ground. In
this case I'd have no choice but to figure it out for myself. Perhaps I
wouldn't be able to land it, but given the choice between zero chance and
some chance I'd give it a shot.
> Installing QMail is much closer to attempting to learn to fly. The
Installing qmail is nowhere near as dangerous as learning to fly. Flying
requires not only knowledge of theory but a large amount of practical
skill, and a lack of skill has serious consequences when learning to fly.
> My guess is that the population in the U.S. of people who don't know
> what they need to know to install QMail as is on a system with a
> firewall already installed without assistance, and the population
> of people in the U.S. who don't know how to start a Cessna 150 even
> when handed a key, without assistance are very comparable.
That doesn't mean that installing qmail is comparable to learning to fly a
Cessna.
shag
