On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 12:30:04PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yeah, we can flame the newbie, which makes everyone on
> the list have to listen to quite a few obnoxious
> e-mails spouting holier-than-thou "Read the FAQ or hire
> a professional" or we can use one e-mail directly to
> the person who had the question, answer his question
> (like I just did) and the list doesn't need to
> hear another word about it.
> Silence is golden.
> Doubly so when you have a slow ISP.
He was given the answer -- 'man qmail-remote'. It contains examples,
just like he asked for (Dan's man pages, when he writes them, are
excellent). Which would have been faster, and less trouble for everyone?
1. 'man qmail-remote'. Spend five minutes reading the darn page. Spend
thirty seconds putting:
local.domain:
:[smarthost ip]
into smtproutes. Time spent, five minutes, thirty seconds.
2. Send repeated mails to a busy mailing list. Probably takes two
minutes per message to write them. Five to ten minutes to wait for it to
hit the list and reach most of the subscribers. Five minutes or so while
all the people on the list who know the answer to think about his
problem and answer the question. Five to ten minutes more while their
answers reach most of the subscribers. Thirty seconds to put the same
thing in smtproutes. Time spent, at least nineteen minutes, thirty
seconds (and probably more).
What's the motivation here?
--
Greg White
