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Subject: Re: Digests, phase zero
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>
Date: 25 Sep 1998 19:11:57 -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 17:05:03 -0700 (PDT)"
References: <Pine.BSI.4.04.9809251659180.2982-100000@queernet.queernet.org>

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

RBAK> Most of the patches I've seen have been "I want a different behavior"
RBAK> patches.  I count maybe a half-dozen non-incorporated actual fixes in
RBAK> over a year.

I don't know; I've seen a lot of requests for access restriction, easier
list creation, more integrated digestifying, better archives, better MIME
handling, smoother installation, and a bunch of other things.  Gee, that
looks like what I'm addressing.

RBAK> "The users"?  Or 10% of the users?  Or 5%?  Or 1%?

You can't please everybody.

RBAK> I'll give Mj2 a shot, probably, but I certainly haven't seen much of
RBAK> any grat improvement in it, other than the need to be a Pine jock to
RBAK> use it, a pile of data structures most of us learn to give up on and
RBAK> hide completely after a few years of non-academic programming
RBAK> experience, and an abandonment of the simplicity that made me choose
RBAK> Mj1 in the first place.

Well, then it probably isn't for you.  Sorry.

 - J<


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