[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] How to remove X-Confirm-Reading requests from mail headers distributed by Mailman?

[Brad Knowles]

At 1:23 AM +0200 2004/04/04, Andrzej Kasperowicz wrote:

>  I'd be glad if you could explain it to him, as he apparently was
>  offended, because I didn't do it, and he's not a newbe in internet, I've
>  seen him on-line for about 9-10 years.

	As I told you in private e-mail, I'm not interested in whatever 
he might have to say.  I've been in this business long enough to know 
what the capabilities are of the various types of programs, and 
there's nothing he could possibly say that could change my mind.

	These are facts we're dealing with, and regardless of whatever 
his personal opinions are as to what he feels should be done to 
protect him from his own stupidity, he's not going to change the 
facts.

>>  	We are not going to take every single bloody feature of ecartis
>
>  Of course not, but what is wrong in taking every good, useful feature?

	We can take input from many sources, when it comes to ideas to 
incorporate into Mailman.  I'm sure that Barry would be happy to 
accept any useful input you may have.  However, keep in mind that 
Barry can always decide not to implement a particular recommended 
feature, and even those features that he does decide to implement 
will have to be prioritized.

	Moreover, the development effort that is available is extremely 
limited -- there are a whole host of compromises that have to be 
continually made, and no one ever gets everything they want, and most 
people probably don't even get many of the things they want.


	But asking someone to re-create a commercial product and then 
give that away for free, well that's quite a different matter.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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