On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:59:02PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: >And between your attitude and David's, I must say, I can see why there was a >fuss with Keith, and why people suggested that he fork the project. If y'all
I've been making that suggestion too. Haven't seen anything come of it yet. Hopefully y'all won't have to wait too much longer. >can't be bothered to be polite anymore, go find something else to do, 'k? > >No, really. FOSS doesn't need any bad attitudes, even this late in it's >evolution. If objecting to your misrepresentation of your opinion as "right vs wrong" is a sign of a bad attitude, then cool. I don't know why you fail to consider that in a project as old as XFree86 this tired old issue wasn't considered and dispatched a long long time ago. It was. If you want to look at it as cost vs benefit, the benefit to the subscribers (and archives) as a whole in maximising the chance that they'll see all the discussions outweighs the cost of the occasional misdirected private reply, in my experience over the life of XFree86. It works for us. Unlike you, I'm not claiming that one solution is best for all situations. As I said in another message today, you can set your own reply-to, and it won't get overriden, so some of the stuff on Chip's page doesn't even apply here. A warning from the Surgeon General: Mail sent to this list may be infected by a reply-to header pointing back to the list. Some experts consider this harmful. The most reliable way to avoid this potential harm is to unsubscribe from this list. :-) David -- David Dawes Founder/committer/developer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
