On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 10:19:12PM -0400, David Dawes wrote: > >No, it's that widely held. Been on mailing lists since I had a bang path. > >It's harmful. Believe me. > > It's still an *opinion*. 11 years of dealing with XFree86 mailing > lists have shown me that for everyone who agrees with it, there is > at least one who disagrees. The biggest difference is that those > who agree with it are more likely to be so fanatical about it that > they'll use their last breath to insist that it's a right vs wrong > issue rather than an *opinion*. > > No amount of rehashing this tired old topic will serve any useful > purpose.
It's not my list. It *IS* probably a good idea to point out that the list does such munging at the point of signup, though. There have been divorces. No, I'm not kidding. ... Yeah, an X Window list is *not* all that likely to cause a divorce. :-) And actually, no, it's not an opinion; it's a cost benefit analysis. *I* make the costs much higher than the benefits, and *that* is an opinion. A professional opinion; yes, I *do* make a living at this Internet stuff. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
