Re: Improving the WHOIS format

Dwayne Henderson wrote on Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 05:21:41PM MST:
>    Look, all I'm saying is change the likes of "ircname" to "IRC name".
>    Basically you're arguing that all development on Irssi should cease
>    because people are happy with the way things were.
>    You don't like my ideas, fine. You wanna live in the past, fine. I just
>    hope you don't drag this project down with you.
I'm sure Irssi can be made better, but there's a term for what you're doing:
bikeshedding. [1] Others are not trying to "drag this project down" and
the person you're attacking on this list (Jase a.k.a bazerka) *does* work to
improve Irssi. [2], [3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality
[2] http://bugs.irssi.org/
[3] http://www.irssi.org/ChangeLog

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