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[Lewis Lau]

The spirit of open source programming is that you are supposed to be a
participant in the project development, contribute your patches to the project,
give out your advice and suggestion (in a more politly way), save your time for
expecting other people to feed you up and make use of the time for solution
finding (with your own brian). Don't consider yourself as a damn customer in
the open source world, and in fact, you didn't pay a single penny for mailman
or any other open source software right? So what make you think that you have
the right to yelling around just because of the software didn't fulfill all
your needs?
We all learn Linux from nothing, and we all learn Python from nothing. So my
ASSUMPTION was not everyone had the coding abilities, but everyone should has
the abilities and wills to LEARN! As I mentioned before, if you are seeking for
spoon-feeding stuffs, Linux and Mailman are just not suit for you. Think about
it man!

Lewis

"AerosmithFanClub.com List Admin" wrote:

>          Lewis you ASS-U-ME one BIG thing.  that everyone who uses a given
> item of software has coding abilities in the underlying programming
> language.   And another thing requests for help and asking how to do
> something is NOT complaining. Jesus whats up with you high and
> mighties?  Someone comes along and points out that this software is not
> perfect and you all take it as if your child had just been eaten by Jeffrey
> Dalhmer (however the hell you spell his name).
>          MM appears to have been designed exactly for the idiots that you
> profess about.  It is very inflexible in its use.  You either use it the
> EXACT way the programmers determined that everyone would want to use it or
> to hell with you.  Most of the users on this list have been rude at best in
> any request I have seen from anyone asking for help.  The KINDEST response
> I have seen to anyone is a curt "read the FAQ".  At least if you do revert
> to that it would be half way decent to give the person asking the question
> some idea in the FAQ the information is covered.
> >
> >The most precious thing of open source software is that if you don't
> >satisfied with the programme, you can customize the code yourself to meet
> >you own needs, and then share you patches with other users over the world.
> >The full source code is right on your hand!
> >That's why Linux grow up so fast, and that's why tons of open source
> >softwares being developed so well. Try to find out the solutions yourself,
> >don't just sitting over there and keep complaining! Basically, open source
> >software was not designed for idiots.
> >If you are looking for something else that ready for use just by a few
> >mouse clicks, get back to Microsoft! =P
> >
> >Lewis