Re: [exim] Referring people to the docs vs. an example

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Author: Dave Lugo
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Referring people to the docs vs. an example
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Marc Perkel wrote:
>
> Anshuman G wrote:
> > yes, somethings I feel this exim mail list is also like one step more
> > for going to read manual
> >
>
> There is a really bad attitude that is developing on this list regarding
> being rude to people


Pot, kettle, black.


> with questions. Although Exim is by far the best
> MTA out there it's not easy to use. I've been using it for 6 years and I
> still find it hard to do things that should be simple. There are a lot
> of severe inconsistencies in the Exim syntax that are not documented or
> poorly documented and although Exim can do very powerful things, it is
> often very hard to tell it what you want to do.
>
> So people have questions and it isn't helpful when regulars and sysops
> jump in with bad attitude. If the people running this forum were doing
> tech support for a commercial product they wouldn't last a day. I think
> bad attitude is a big turn off to Exim users and why Exim hasn't gained
> the market share that other MTAs have that are clearly inferior.
>


You get what you pay for.


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