Re: [Evolution] long post

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

My sincerest appologies, this will not happen in the future.

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 16:04 +0200, Ted Anderson wrote:
> I thought I might share some ideas I had about Evo and this list:
>
> First, the apparently increased number and type of questions isn't
> necessarily such a bad thing. To me it shows that the word is getting
> out about Evolution and that more people are joining our ranks. The
> questions will continue to increase with the number of users.
>
> Second, take a breath! The replies from people with "@ximian.com" in
> their email addresses have been getting pretty hostile lately, and have
> crossed the bounds of professionalism, unless of course "dickhead" is a
> new corporate buzzword. I have never written a program, but I do know
> what it's like to work hard on an important project and then have some
> johnny-come-lately start telling you how he would do it better. Try to
> remember that no matter how good your software, someone else will want
> something different.
>
> Third, try to remember that one of the main goals (as far as I can tell)
> is to lure people away from Outlook. If you advertise that you're an
> Outlook replacement, you need to be prepared for people to ask you for
> every single feature that is currently available to them in Outlook. No
> matter how stupid you think a feature is, someone out there uses
> it--guaranteed.
>
> Finally, how about a way to search the archives? People in here are
> quick to snip about searching through the archives, but Ximian provides
> no good way to do so. Why not have whoever runs the mailing list take 30
> seconds to add this link to the bottom:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/evolution%40lists.ximian.com?
>
> I hope you take this as it's meant and not as an attack. As a free user
> of Ximian software I am thankful that your team is spending so much time
> on this project and I hope it continues to succeed. I guess if Not Zed
> doesn't figure out a way to make my copy of Evo format my hard drive
> then I'll expect the flames to start pouring in. Thanks for your time.
>
> -- 
> Ted
>
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