From: Rod.. Whitworth (listenwitworx.com)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2005 - 21:56:36 CST

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On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:32:30 +0100, Jens Ropers wrote:

>5. Irrespective of choice of list software or licensing, are people
>interested in finding out what improvements (if any) list subscribers
>(and here I mean: all of us) would like to see in openbsd.org's list
>software? Do people think there's something "amiss" currently and if so
>what? In other words, why not ask what the community wants? This would
>also enable anybody potentially interested in and capable of committing
>code to see what would get them most "user love".
>
This is not a democracy.
Mostly because all the people with free advice do nothing to contribute
anything real.
The rest of us get by pretty well most of the time with a free service
that might have a wrinkle or two but works mostly smoothly. I have
learned plenty over the past 5 years and expect to learn plenty more.
Not bad for a list you think deficient.

Those who know a better way can fork the project code and demonstrate
their ...ahhh... superior... list handling with their own choice of
list-server whilst trying to please their own users at the same time.

>6. Or would this all widely be considered futile chatter?
>
Yes. See above.

From the land "down under": Australia.
Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?

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