Quoting Mike Bresnahan (mbresnah at visi.com): > This seems like the most economical solution. Why spend time and money > designing, buying, configuring, and admining a mailing list server when > there are free ones out there that work quite well? I understand why Bob ranted after this post. Mike suggests the passive, use someone else's services approach, rather than the "fix the problem" and dedicate some resources approach. It's a bit like buying a new car just because the tire's flat. I don't think this is what he meant entirely, but it certainly reads poorly. Bob writes about his personal use, suggests IRC for real-time discussion, and prompts for involvement from the Python developers in our group... So, time to put up or shut-up. Open source is about technical people solving their own problems (aka scratching their own itch). Seems like we got a big-ass mosquito bit. Who wants to help scratch? Ugh. I just spent a 13+ hour day at work hacking away at shell script and Fully Automated Install (FAI) code. Believe you me, I embrace the use-it-fix-it methodology. I have two Debian packages to make good on before Debian freezes, but following that I should be able to find the time to help out with TCLUG sponsored projects. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Get my public key, ICQ#, etc. $(mailx -s 'get info' chewie at wookimus.net) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020129/9f635ae3/attachment.pgp