On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 02:27:28PM -0700, Lyndon Griffin wrote:
> > The decision to not support inetd was made after qmail 1.03 was
> > released and
> > was announced on this list. I assume that the documentation will be
> > corrected in the next version.
>
> So then the assumption is that all qmail users subscribe to - and read -
> every message on this list. Not only that, new users have also gone back
> and read every message that was ever posted.
No, the assumption is that when a qmail user follows the instructions, and
can't get qmail to work with inetd for some reason, he comes here and asks
for help. He is then told that inetd is not officially supported and that he
should use tcpserver.
The user is in effect given an "update". The latest qmail source tarball is
quite old, and since there will be no more releases of qmail 1.0, dan probably
figured that it doesn't make sense to release 1.04 for a minor documentation
change. *That* is what this list and www.qmail.org are for. *WE* are the
cutting edge qmail users that know all the latest info. Expecting current
info to be in a two year old distribution is kind of unrealistic, IMO. So is
expecting an author to release a new version of software just to make
documentation changes.
--Adam
