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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:32:38 +0100 Grobian <grobian@g.o> wrote: |
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> | So, what list should the user that wants to receive those |
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> | **important** messages sign up to? |
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> That's your first misconception right there. Most users don't sign up |
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> for things. |
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Doesn't matter. If the important messages aren't posted or you have to |
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extract them yourself the effect is the same. |
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Besides that, I see no arguments why users don't. No proof either. |
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Forcing a push-based method on someone who likes pull-based methods is |
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evil. The least you can do to make everybody happy, is allow pull-based |
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access to the important news items, and devote some more words on how to |
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disable your 'feature'. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo for Mac OS X Project -- Interim Lead |
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