James Mohr said: This is not Windows, here. This is Linux, or have you forgotten? It is as close to a democracy as any OS will likely get. If the majority thinks it should be one way or other, then that way is a close to "right" as you are going to get.
Sigh. Sorry, but no. The majority doesn't run two of the highest traffic mailinglists in the world (yes, it's true). Nor do they have to get out of bed at 4am to plonk some jackass who thinks it's a good idea to misconfigure a mail gateway that generates hundreds of double bounces per minute or deal with people who complain that either a) transfers from ftp are too slow b) turnaround time on the mailinglists is too long and don't understand that the two are related. No, anything that reduces the amount of traffic on SLE or SL is probably a good thing.
What Chip Rosenthal is doing in that article is stating an *opinion*.
Yes, and we agree with it. I only pointed it out b/c he has given a much more articulate discussion of it than I can.
On the other hand, based on a lot of discussion on this list, most people feel that it is **wrong** to quote someone without mentioning who is being quoted. Oh, wait a minute! Isn't that what you just did? Just what are the Mailing-List Police going to say about that?
My response was directed at the list in general, not to the original post. Whoever it was, I am very sorry. Can this please die for another 6 months now? -- -ckm