Re: Two copies of E-Mail (Re: I wish to advocate linux)
On 03/03/13 10:30, David Guntner wrote:
> Actually, I am seeking no such thing. What I *am* saying, however, is
> that if you (again, in the general sense, not necessarily specifically
> you) are going to come at someone with a "that solution is no good for
> reason X," then it's only polite to provide an alternative (or a pointer
> to where one might be found). Hacker's Ethic, if nothing else. :-)
>
> I've worked at places where the attitude of management was along the
> lines of, "If you're going to come to me with a complaint about the way
> something is being done, provide a possible solution. Otherwise I don't
> want to hear from you about it." I happen to mostly agree with that
> philosophy.
FWIW I, in general, don't. I feel it's worth pointing out potential
pitfalls in a plan even if I can't see an alternative. It may even be
that the only useful alternative is not to do it at all. And in this
case, everyone's tolerance to the problem differs - I'd rather manually
delete a few emails than have them deleted automatically and possibly
wrongly. And some third party, who hasn't posted ever, may have read
your suggestion and not thought of that drawback, so it's useful to have
these things out there.
> You (yea, in this case you) seem to
> have the opinion that mine is a horrible solution and I shouldn't be
> sharing it with others who have a similar situation that they'd like to
> handle.
I can only speak for me, but I certainly don't think you shouldn't share
it. I do think you should welcome comments on it :-)
Richard
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