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Subject: Re: Digests, phase zero
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>
Date: 25 Sep 1998 18:58:07 -0500
To: "Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk @ QueerNet . ORG>
Cc: Bill Houle <bhoule @ sparc . sandiegoca . ncr . com>, "Randall S. Winchester" <rsw @ Glue . umd . edu>, majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: "Roger B.A. Klorese"'s message of "Fri, 25 Sep 1998 16:49:23 -0700 (PDT)"
References: <Pine.BSI.4.04.9809251646260.182-100000@queernet.queernet.org>

>>>>> "RBAK" == Roger B A Klorese <rogerk@QueerNet.ORG> writes:

RBAK> Another way of looking at it is that Mj1 sought its level of
RBAK> capability, and people who were willing to live with that capability
RBAK> set chose to do so.

That doesn't explain all of the outside patching and bug fixing essentially
ignored by the maintainer.  It also doesn't explain the constant repeated
feature requests.

RBAK> Software does not exist for the sake of its developer community, but
RBAK> rather, for its users.

Precisely.  And the users haven't been getting what they've wanted.
Traffic on majordomo-users constantly bears this out.

I can't tell what you're arguing here.

 - J<


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