Re: Quality of this List

[Amitai Schlair]

asantos wrote:

> 1) Dan's anti-packaging policy (which in fact creates most of the newbie
> queries, therefore defeating the simplicity of support argument)

I disagree. Newbies create newbie queries. At the risk of sounding like
a BOFH, I'll press further: if qmail were to become even easier to
install, more newbies would figure they could handle the job of running
it, and we'd have _more_ newbie queries from people who, after
installing, discovered the reality that it's _not_ easy to run a mail
server.

(Though, IMO, qmail makes the task relatively easy -- that's why I run
it.)

> Given the above, it is no wonder that people increasingly use sendmail or
> such.

Is this a verifiable conclusion? Where can I see some data?

- Amitai