--On Sunday, May 18, 2003 5:20 PM -0500 schuetzen <chasm@texas.net> wrote:
I asked the question for a reason. there are a world of newbies on this list. if you want to grow a sport or a software or an OS, you are going to hve to be tolerant. I truly hope that you do not speak with the voice of this list. I would really hope that was not true. Otherwise, those who WOULD use mailman would be better off going to either another site hosting this s/w OR to another software entirely. I see people like you killing fragile sports which only old men engage in every day on the playing fields. and then people wonder where the next generation of players are going to come from.
To which I reply:
And you got the answer you did for a reason -- setting up mailing list software like Mailman is not for newbies. There's the expectation that someone who is going to set up Mailman will have a certain base set of knowledge. If they don't, then they're going to spend a lot of time flailing around, and asking questions that they should have already figured out the answers to.
Such folks are better served either using a hosting service that provides mailing list software, or paying for some product that provides support.
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