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on 2/27/00 10:35 AM, Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Is there any way to read the new JServ FAQ List with having to click on
>>> every freaking link individually?
>>
>> No, but the source code is available so that you can add that feature. Sigh,
>> give an inch --- take a mile.
>
> Excuse me? Why should a reader have to fix someone else's inconvenient
> design?
Let me explain something to you which you obviously don't understand...
I spent a week+ of _my time_ (which I'm not paid for) giving _you_ that FAQ
in the first place. Would you rather not have anything to use? No one else
even stepped up to the plate to take on responsibility of doing a FAQ. I did
my best to provide a working solution for people to use. At least I did
*something*. Not only that, but I provide the source code so that you can
improve on it.
Thus, if you do not like what I gave to you, then you are free to do one of
two things:
#1. Help make it better.
#2. Shut up.
Here is a good way for you to think of how you made me feel:
Imagine that you go to a third world country and there are some Peace Corps
people working as hard as they can to make things better with very little in
return. Then you suddenly show up and say "this freaking village needs to
have paved streets." How do you think the people who are working their asses
off would feel?
> Why make it inconvenient for potential users to read the FAQ document?
The FAQ is easy for me to read. Maybe you are the one who is broken. ;-)
As for "potential" users...you either are a user or you are not a user.
There is no "potential" around here. That is also the difference between
commercial software and open source software. We don't gain anything by
having you as a "potential" user. I am happy if you decide to use the
software, but I could give a shit if you don't.
> That search returns results from other documents too, and doesn't show
> the
> context of the matched text (so the reader can see quickly whether it's
> relevant).
Actually, yes it does. You just don't understand how to process the results.
For example, do a search for the word "memory". You get back results that
match what you searched for. One of the results is ~"How do I increase the
memory of the JVM?". I find this to be a better solution than say Ask Jeeves
because you don't even have to know the question that you mean to ask. ;-)
I hope that clarifies things for you a bit more.
-jon
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