Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 21:35, Dan O'Reilly wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 13:22, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> > ons, 2002-10-30 kl. 20:58 skrev Dan Winship:
> >
> > > He was responding to a direct question.
> >
> > Then "his" answer should have been (given the boasted prowess): "How can
> > I help?"
>
> OK, my turn now.  I was asked "you've never done this, have you?".  I
> responded "yes, I have, for this long and doing this".  Your extension
> of this to say I should have said "how can I help" is bulls**t, plain
> and simple.  I got this package to fill a specific need. If the response
> to a request, and then a question asked directly of me and answered
> directly by me, is name-calling and "put up or shut up", then this is
> probably not the software to use, nor is it anything to recommend to
> anyone who might want to use it.
>
> My bottom line is, I don't have time to waste fixing bugs or adding
> functionality to other people's software.  I have my own job where I
> spend quite enough time.  I need an email application that does what I
> need it to do, and there are some out there.  I apparently made a
> mistake in choosing this, then having the utter temerity to suggest
> better behavior.  And I would have hoped that the response to a question
> of "why can't it do this" would have been something other than invective
> and personal attacks.  Apparently I was wrong.
well, the personal attack was from Tony, who does not represent the
feeling of all the evolution hackers and users. So please, don't make
the mistake to judge a whole project based on one person's opinions.

Apart from that, please let's stop this thread. I think it's been
clearly stated what the situation of copy&paste is, and that we are
working on fixing it, so it's useless to continue discussing it.

cheers
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>