Well, Windows is back on the disk.

[Sasha Tsykin]

Peter Garrett wrote:

>On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:21:33 +1100
>Sasha Tsykin <stsykin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Complaining alerts the devs to the problem. Sometimes people dont have 
>>time to actually participate in the project, and the only way for them 
>>to help is to alert the devs as to the problems which need to be fixed.
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>While that is true, the users list isn't the best place to alert the
>developers - submitting bug reports is a better option.
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>Repeated whingeing is a good way to end up in the devs killfiles, I would
>guess - unless the O.P. is willing to submit bug reports or do something
>constructive, I guess it just looks like a rant...
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>Just my $0.02 AU  ;-)
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>Peter,
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>(hoping this thread has lived long enough and will go away soon)
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I agree3 with you about the thread, but a newbie doesn't necessarily 
know about bug reports, so a better way to deal with this thread would 
have been to tell him about that as opposed to jumping on him and trying 
to tear his throat out (metaphorically).