Re: RFS(2): autoreply - A safe, rate-limited auto-responder
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Florent Rougon wrote:
> Blars Blarson <blarson@blars.org> wrote:
> > In other words, this looks like yet another vaction clone by
> > someone who didn't bother to read the vacation man page.
>
> IMO, such judgments are not acceptable on public
> mailing-lists[1]. If the upstream author felt like writing a program
> similar to vacation, hell, who am *I* (and, for that matter, you) to
> say he should do something better with *his* free time?
The author(s) can spend free time in any way the author(s) wish to.
Likewise, Blars and myself are free to tell authors that what they
have written appears to be a waste of their time when Free alternative
"foo" exists. Just like you are free to tell me that responding to
your message is a waste of my time, and others can tell us that
reading this thread is a waste of their time.
Furthermore, the message above isn't written in the context of telling
the authors that they should never have written said software, only
that said software should probably not be included in the archive
because other tools already frobnicate better (or as well.)
Don Armstrong
--
Build a fire for a man, an he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on
fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
-- Jules Bean
http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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