At 5:53 PM -0500 2006-01-26, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Fair enough. I would like to find a way for myself (and other Mailman
> admins) to be in that appropriate place. This doesn't mean all Mailman
> users, perhaps their should be a pre-screened
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.
IMO, this is the correct place.
>> I don't think that we can do anything more than this, and I don't
>> think it's reasonable to expect anything more than this.
>
> I just want to add that, from a site admins perspective, no advanced
> knowledge about a need to update/upgrade is a bad situation. Imagine
> finding out on Friday afternoon that there is a new critical fix (where
> the bug was known for weeks by the vendor) for a system that you
> responsible for maintaining.
Imagine being a vendor/author of a given piece of software, and
have someone else ask a question on your most public mailing list
about a bug that someone else claims to have known about for months,
only this is the first time you're hearing of it.
> Some admins like quiet weekends and
> well-planned upgrades. Having advanced knowledge of what is involved
> makes perfect sense to me.
Yeah, authors and vendors don't like nasty surprises, either.
Fortunately, in this case it is a known issue (which others have
apparently decided to portray in a very different way), and which has
already been addressed (as described by Tokio).
--
Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania
Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755
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