Re: /cgi-bin/ hardcoded

At 02:21 PM 8/8/2005, John Simpson wrote:

>On 2005-08-07, at 1255, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote:
>>At 03:26 AM 8/7/2005, Tek Support wrote:
>>>Not what I'd expect from a C programmer.
>>
>>yes, in my experience, i've always found that people are much more
>>willing to help me when i start off by insulting them.
>
>funny, i don't remember a question in his original message.

"help" does not necessarily imply a question. he wants vqadmin 
recoded to not have hard-coded /cgi-bin/. i don't see the developers 
necessarily deciding they need to jump through hoops to do what this 
person wants, when he opens by insulting them. furthermore, i may be 
mistaken, but this is open source software. if you don't like 
something about the software, you can either ask for it (nicely, 
which usually is...nice) or you can *code it yourself*. 'teksaport' 
says the quality of code is "not what [he'd] expect from a C 
programmer". this implies he can do better. have at it, i say.

>i also don't remember seeing your name in the source code.

it's not. so what?

>the
>message wasn't even sent to you, why go out of your way to attack
>somebody with a legitimate complaint?

the message was sent to the vqadmin mailing list. it was, therefore, 
sent to me. you have a strange notion of what an 'attack' is.


>  calm down, the man's got
>something to say, and i thought he did a pretty good job of saying it.

'calm down'? i'll note that i've just trimmed thirty-three lines, 
across eight paragraphs (not including seven line sig) following your 
comment above. and i'm the one who needs to calm down?

Paul Theodoropoulos
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