Re: XMAIL Disaster
Re: XMAIL Disaster
- Subject: Re: XMAIL Disaster
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:18:46 +0000
on 22/3/05 3:40 pm, Bruce Robertson at email@hidden wrote:
>> Whining about it on a forum full of people who publish free scripts and apps
>> isn't the best way of dealing with *your* problem.
>
> 1. You can call it whining or whatever you want I suppose. This is your
> problem.
Prerogative.
> 2. Your reply makes no sense at all. Please explain why I should not let
> other people know about a problem I have experienced? Other people have
> chimed in directly to me describing similar experience.
You weren't just letting people know that you had a problem.
You were letting us know that "you and your client were losing money"
because you can't get a free, third-party scripting addition to work.
> 3. You also seem to be a mind reader; you have decided that I have decided
> that this is the best way of solving my problem, I'm doing nothing else,
> etc. I am so sorry that my actions disappoint you. Please do tell me all the
> other things you imagine I am doing wrong in my life and especially the
> reasoning process you use to come to these conclusions.
Straw man. But it doesn't look as if you contacted the developer...
> 4. You seem quite confused about the list. This is the applescript users
> list. It is not, for instance, the applescript free software publishers all
> others not admitted list.
Nah, you're the one that's confused.
This is the "AppleScript Users" list where we discuss AppleScript.
It *isn't* the "XMail Bug Reporting" list.
It isn't the "Bad Mouthing Freeware" list either.
Associating the word "disaster" with an application, stating that it crashes
other apps and claiming that it is losing you money in a public forum is
something that you should think twice about before posting.
I don't know Jean-Baptiste, but having looked at the source code of XMail,
I'd say that he'd put an awful lot of work into a useful and ambitious
project.
Providing it to you without charge and under public license means that *you*
are responsible for testing it before deploying it in a situation that is
going to cost you time and money.
That responsibility would include contacting him through the email that he
also provides in the documentation and giving him a chance to respond with
suggestions/fixes before bad mouthing his application in public.
And, while I'm dispensing newbie advice: fix your mail client so that quoted
text is attributed properly and don't CC people with list messages unless
they request it.
--
Martin Orpen
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