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

On 17 Jul, 2007, at 6:19 PM, Marc Perkel wrote:

> 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.

I believe that patches to the docs will
1. Be readily accepted (admittedly I'm not a committer or part of the
docs team or ... but at least the wiki is world editable)
2. Help people who try to figure things out before coming to the list.

Any chance you'll be willing to help clear up the parts you've found
lacking? (I mean that honestly not tongue-in-cheek)

>
> 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.


I personally like being referred to the docs - that way I'm taught
how to fish; not given a trout but YMMV. I guess the best answer is
both an example and a reference; but that's digging up a thread which
was closed IIRC.

Patrick