Perhaps we can use this space for a technical question/answer forum and leave the
personal profiles and opinions for private mailings.
I think I speak for several members of this list.
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From: Luk Van de Heyning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 15:42:09 +0100
>In response to Mr. Fritts message (see below) I would answer this:
>
>I'm known to be "a very annoying person" when testing new software...
>
>I also know lot of programmers who "like me for the ability I seem to have
>to see many little annoying things in a glance" in their brand-new products.
>So they can fox those asap.
>
>I also know some programmers who do not like me ;-)
>Because they seem to think "the customers expects too much".
>
>Let me give an example of how things with "programming and the people who
>dop it" seem to work, IMHO:
>
>A programmer can be over-stressed when fiddling around with numbers /
>fields / records presenting days, weeks, months, years for example.
>He's great in discovering the relationships and "what one can do with those".
>
>But in the end he is creating.... a calendar !
>And "we, customers", have an idea about what a "calendar" is, what it
>should do and "how to operate" it.
>
>But sometimes the programmer looses track and forgets that what he's
>building is a calendar....
>
>Do I make myself clear ?
>
>:-)
>
>And Mr. Fritts also says
>"If there are problems in this or subsequent releases of Imail I have a lot
>of confidence that the programmers at IPSWITCH will fix them."
>
>IMHO (again),many of the problems should have been seen by the developers
>BEFORE releasing the product.
>
>
>
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>
>
>
>From: "Terry L Fritts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 07:28:16 -0600
>Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Another remark about 6.01
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I am running 6.01 but using an external database. I don't see that
>condition in my Imail administrator. I added a user just to see and for me
>it seems to be working just fine.
>
>I am a programmer. I could have written my own mail server program but I
>could not have done it as well or as cheaply as IMAIL. My opinion is that
>IMAiL is pretty solid software and it is easier to administer and make
>productive that any other email server I've worked on. 6.01 includes huge
>changes to the administration suite of programs. These are usually the most
>difficult pieces of code to write and because of the huge number of options
>almost impossible to completely test under every circumstance. That is
>especially true with the proliferating number of operating systems and
>collateral services.
>
>If there are problems in this or subsequent releases of Imail I have a lot
>of confidence that the programmers at IPSWITCH will fix them.
>
>
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