Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!MIX!Blackbird From: billy@MIX.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:23:37 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <100620140720035503%michelle@michelle.org> <-PWdnaqX2vJo8QrOnZ2dnUVZ_qadnZ2d@giganews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1402507417 28588 166.84.1.5 (11 Jun 2014 17:23:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:23:37 +0000 (UTC) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:22771 comp.sys.mac.system:60783 Darrin Doc O'Leary wrote: > And, to address the larger point, and I repeat myself: it's not the code > I have a problem with for the most part, it is how most open source > projects are *managed*. If I complain about the lack of a libnntp it > has nothing to do with code itself, but everything to do with how a > project sees itself on the world stage. If you're going to bother to > open source something, do it professionally I say. A big annoyance with > looking into writing Signal was slogging through all the newsreader code > that already exists only to find that nobody involved seemed to give a > damn about making their code *useful* to other people. In other words, you do have a problem with the code. I can't speak for anyone involved with slrn and tin but I'm reasonably certain what they do give a damn about is making their *newsreaders* useful to other people. Billy Y.. -- sub #'9+1 ,r0 ; convert ascii byte add #9.+1 ,r0 ; to an integer bcc 20$ ; not a number