for Thomas E. Zander, mplayer maintainer.

[Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET]

> 
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:58:04AM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
> > > 
> > > Distributed, worldwide projects like FreeBSD rely on communication
> > > between their members.  When one project member in a position of
> > > responsibility denies the ability for others to contact him -- whether
> > > it was his direct choice or just because he chooses to use a mail
> > > server with inappropriate filtering -- then it harms the project.
> > > 
> > 	Kris, FWIW, I think when someone posts a request for help onto
> > a list, gets back a dozen "Did you RTFM" either on list or offlist,
> > replies back that they did (And shows they did), and then gets dead
> > air.......... THAT harms the project.
> 
> Uh, you seem to be axe grinding, but I told you to follow up with the
> maintainer once I evaluated your report and didn't spot any obvious
> problems.  Why wasn't that good enough for you?
> 
	If you mean axe grinding in the sense that over the years I've
posted to freebsd-* for help with things pertaining to either a single
piece of software, procedure I read somewhere, problem during an 
upgrade, etc... and either been blown off, told to re-read the docs
that I've missed a crucial step (Which I stated that I did perform
in my original email), or told to fix something ELSE that had nothing to
do with it first... Then yea, I guess you can call it axe grinding. 

	If your talking about the most recent interaction you/I had about 
portupgrade and +CONTENTS, thats a dead issue to me once others said
they saw it too. (Yea, its annoying as all hell especially on a filesystem
where every read/write is "precious", but I'll get over it, and if I
can't, I will follow the sage advice to CTFPM). And hey, yea, it was
f'n good enough for me, so thanks! (But again, you seem to be quite
defensive that I'm supposedly "axe grinding" over it)

			Tuc