Re: [Pan-users] Multiple Server Question (possibly suggestion)

[Duncan]

On Monday 07 October 2002 10:36, Charles Kerr wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:00:42AM -0700, Eric Ortega wrote:
> >
> > This functionality has been on the TODO list since 1999.
>
> And *still* nobody's submitted a patch for it!  Free software projects are
> *supposed* to leave in missing features to draw in unwitting programmers!
> Clearly you, the users, are not living up to your side of the deal. ;)

Interesting you should mention that...  I'm clearly not ready to take on such 
a challenge yet, but I did switch from MSWormOS to Linux less than a year 
ago, in part because I had run up against the brick wall of $$ in continuing 
my hobbiest developer activities on MSWormOS.  (I was actually pushed by MS 
to take the plunge, after considering it for some time, when XP turned out to 
be short for eXPrivacy, and I realized I either had to pirate it to keep my 
privacy in tact, or switch.  Fortunately, there was the Linux alternative, 
which I had already been contemplating, and vetting all my hardware purchases 
against, for some time.)

Linux is a far better environment for the hobbiest programmer, and I switched 
with the goal of ultimately picking a project or two to be active in, and 
contribute to.  PAN definitely fits the interest requirement there, but I've 
some serious work ahead of me before I match its talent requirement.   (I 
formerly worked with pro-level VB, but as a hobbiest -- where I hit that 
brick wall.  I've had a couple intro courses in C and Pascal, but am working 
with Perl now on Linux, so Pan patches are a ways off.) 

Still, I recently subscribed to all three PAN lists in ordered to keep up on 
things, and in a year or two... who knows?  In the mean time, I can be active 
on the lists.

-- 
Duncan
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --
Benjamin Franklin