Re: [Mailman-Developers] How to remove X-Confirm-Reading requests from mail headers distributed by Mailman?
On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 18:54:55 +0200 Andrzej Kasperowicz andyk@spunge.org wrote:
I don't. I assume that everyone can learn python should their interest/need for a particular feature be large enough. After all,
Bad assumption. Time is not from rubber, your advice might be good for computer science students, but might not be for others.
No. The critical point is "large enough". If their need is large enough they either will themselves, or will arrange for someone else to as their proxy.
I suggest you never say again to someone such unceremoniously just do it yourself. If someone could do it himself he would do it without asking for that on the list.
Frequently, near enough to invariably as to be easily mistaken for it, that is not the case.
Excellent, and thank you, however code is far more valuable than ideas.
You really think so? What code would you write without any ideas, huh?
Any decent engineer (or otherwise) can think of a thousand great ideas an hour. There isn't a particular shortage of such. There is a particular shortage of implementations of great ideas.
-- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. claw@kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
No. The critical point is "large enough". If their need is large enough they either will themselves, or will arrange for someone else to as their proxy.
I don't think so. If they ask for that on the list, that already means that their need is large enough. List-owners needn't to know any computer language, and in fact probably most of the list-owners do not know any, and you shouldn't expect that they will learn it just to implement a feature in mailman - that's an utopian expectation.
Frequently, near enough to invariably as to be easily mistaken for it, that is not the case.
People sometimes offer their code on the list (a few months ago a code to add the links in archive, and now the quotation filter). It's now the developers' task not to waste that generous offer and implement it in the mailman distribution.
Any decent engineer (or otherwise) can think of a thousand great ideas an hour. There isn't a particular shortage of such. There is a
No, they think that they have great ideas, really great ideas are rare.
particular shortage of implementations of great ideas.
Sure, but still idea is first. Without an idea there would be no code.
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