From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 25 13:30:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ddg.com (eunuch.ddg.com [216.30.58.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A85137BE17; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 13:30:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from nomad.dataplex.net (24.28.73.209) by mail.ddg.com with SMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.1); Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:30:28 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth To: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Archive pruning Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:30:27 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.41] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: current@FreeBSD.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00042515302702.02802@nomad.dataplex.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > Actually, I didn't start this. Someone else brought up the idea. > > ...and quickly decided it was not worthwhile. Yes, the developers do a good job of repressing opinions that differ from their own. > > The quiet majority that might benefit are not very likely to speak up > > when they are told some is impossible. After all, they are at the mercy > > of the very developers who oppose change because it does not directly > > benefit the developers. > > > > I do object to the characterization by these developers that it CANNOT be > > done. > > I haven't heard anyone say that. What I have heard is "too much work for > too little gain". If you still disagree, it's time to put up or shut up And if I put up, will you (the organization) use it? It's certainly too much work to prove the obvious. I don't have to convince myself of anything. The only value accrues if it gets used. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message