Re: XEmacs 21.1.4 (Arches) is released
Gunnar Evermann <ge204(a)cus.cam.ac.uk> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
...
In my opinion we should rethink our presence on c.e.x (or our PR in
general). I makes me very sad if the public perception of the XEmacs team
is a bunch of debian-bashing hackers who don't care about their user
base.
"debian-bashing hackers"? I guess I've gotten very out of touch.
I do answer a lot of questions on c.e.x (either on the list or more
often
by email) and so do some others (especially Jan and Hrvoje come to mind).
I suggest we adopt a slightly modified policy on this:
- whenever possible send the first followup to a question to c.e.x
and
offer to sort out detailed problems via email (I think I'm currently
helping three people through the XEmacs install process). This also
avoids duplication of effort (e.g. if Jan already told someone to read
README.packages then I don't have to repeat that).
If you're going to take this kind of time, it's probably a better idea
to post it so it gets archived by dejanews. Otherwise you are going
to be answering the same questions over and over and over again.
- always use a ï¼ xemacs.org address and an associated .sig (I think
Ben
suggested this a long time ago)
I don't think this is a good idea because of address harvesting. Perhaps
a generic usenet posting address can be created that gets filtered to
/dev/null.
(I don't currently have access to Usenet).