From: Keith Matthews (no email)
Date: Wed Jun 01 2005 - 01:08:29 EDT
On Tue, 31 May 2005 23:19:31 -0500
Matt England <> wrote:
>
> Just a thought. I'm still stunned about how fractured postfix docs
> (and related things like postfixadmin and courier-imap) seem to be in
> soooo many different places...with duplicate and/or conflicting info.
>
Part of the problem is that postfix is not always set up to work with
courier, or MySQL. Different sites have different needs that must be
addressed differently.
There is also the standard FLOSS problem of individual's preferred
solutions (and anyone who doesn't think that is a problem just go to any
Linux newsgroup and ask 'should I use Emacs or vi' or 'which is the best
filesystem type') and many of those preferences are based on emotion
rather than cold logic and will be expressed in absolute terms.
> So why not leverage the power of a wiki in one site?
>
One of the lessons I have learned in 32 years in the business is that
there is rarely just *one* right answer. Typically there are a number
that are clearly wrong (like the permissions you and Victor were
discussing), and there are a number that could be right, but only one
*right* answer is very rare.
I would add that if there is a single point then it tends to express a
single viewpoint only. Wikipedia is getting to be a classic example of
that where there are people who care more about having the style correct
than they do about having correct information (not to mention those who
think that one country's terminology is the only *right* one to use).
-- I do not reply to directly addressed mail unless it is clearly a matter that should be dealt with off-list.
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