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>Sometimes, we just don't know what to say</H3>
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<p><strong>From darrell rolstone
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<p align="right"><strong>Answered By Ben Okopnik, Dan Wilder, Heather Stern
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Dear Tag staff , especially Ben,
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Well folks....I've patiently waited several weeks for a response to my
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LONG letter.....and have given up and am re-contacting you to ask if you
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even got it?
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<BLOCKQUOTE><IMG SRC="../../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" ALT="(!)"
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> [Dan]
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Your message of 2 May 2001 did indeed arrive. It may be found
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at the list archive,
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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<A HREF="http://www.ssc.com/mailing-lists/tag/200105/0020.html"
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>http://www.ssc.com/mailing-lists/tag/200105/0020.html</A>
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You raise some interesting questions.
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The fact that the Open source software base comprises untold millions
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of lines of code (has anybody ever counted?) indicates that there must
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be some reason people do this. Eric Raymond has a few interesting
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ideas. See <A HREF="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings"
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>http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings</A>.
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I suspect that absence of responses on this mailing list was due to
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the fact that none of the regular posters felt they had much in
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particular to contribute, at least on the day your mail appeared,
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to the questions you raise. For this I don't really apologise;
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we're all volunteers here, and we do what we can.
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Ben's first response was IMMEDIATE and so ...
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<BLOCKQUOTE><IMG SRC="../../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" ALT="(!)"
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> [Ben]
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I guess I should stop responding so IMMEDIATELY... <wicked grin>
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> [Heather]
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...and so you have sadly developed the illusion that you should get 1 hour
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turnaround on your problems from TAG. That's not the way it works here.
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<EM>Linux Gazette</EM> is not any sort of company, TAG's just a batch of friends
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that try to help folks like you out... and the Gazette gets to publish
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the results, if it looks like they'd "Make Linux a Little More Fun!" for
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others. That's the only pay we get, too. You want timely, buy a tech
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support contract from some Linux vendor that sells them.
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Even if it were a company a fast turnaround might be unreasonable, but that
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depends on whatever the original problem was. Most companies actively limit
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what type of questions they'll even bother to answer; "Linux" is quite a
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broad topic, these days.
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If Ben or any of the other members of the Gang continue the thread, great.
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If not, oh well. Sorry you got your hopes up. You can re-send your message
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if you like. If you do, its successful delivery to any TAG gurus doesn't
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obligate them to answer.
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... I'm thinking maybe something went
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wrong in the sending process, although I never received a "failure" notice!
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It has also suspiciously disappeared from my "sent messages" folder!!!
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I have to wonder if you guys are being "watched"? Immediately after
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mailing you, I received some strange e-mails .....one from
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"<em>friends@hoovertime</em>" with no message.....just an attachment!
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> [Heather]
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So, it looks like your site gets spam too. (Due to an open policy of
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receiving queries from Linux users all over the world, we get an unfair
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share, ourselves.) Luckily, you probably can do something about it...
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procmail filters or something. There have been a few useful articles
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against that subject in recent issues of <em>LG</em>.
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<br> (To be fair, it might be little hard to filter spam in your hotmail
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account. Oh well. )
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Anyway, please let me know if infact you did receive my e-mail of
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several weeks ago.
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<P><STRONG>
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Thanks
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<P><STRONG>
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Darrell Rolstone / Vector Synergy Intl
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> [Heather]
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We get an increasing amount of mail each month. You have provided no special
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context that I could use to find it anyways other than your name. It's not
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reasonable for us to go looking for it. I hope that some of what Ben said for
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you was helpful so far. If your actual thread of question and answers is
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useful to others by the end of the month, it may get published in whole or part.
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Yes, I agree, it's polite to continue a thread in progress, and for all I
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know, 3 of them have it lazing about in their draft folders. One of TAG may
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have sent you something which never arrived at your end. If they didn't copy
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the publishing staff here, I actually have <EM>no means</EM> to find it for you, or
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even to publish it later.
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Dear Dan, ( and stern Heather too!)
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Thanks SO MUCH for answering! Now I know that my letter did infact
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arrive! I REALLY appreciate it and all that you and the other volunteers do.
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I hope that my "interesting questions" generate some "food for thought"
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among linux programmers! It looks like IBM and their new associates will be
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addressing many of the drawbacks that I pointed out ....by paying their
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programmers to code using the linux kernal (along with the NSA)! I hope that
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"far-reaching" programs like the two I have initiated will garner monetary
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support somehow!
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<p><strong>
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Please know that I put myself "at your service" to the whole of the
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linux community, as a "synergy design consultant" ( which pretty much covers
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EVERYTHING) and would be glad to volunteer to contribute my prospective on
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any projects/problems!
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Remember: "the significant problems we face today cannot be solved by
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the same level of thinking that created them" Albert Einstein.
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May the Source be with you, Darrell Ernest Rolstone
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