On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 1:30 AM, Alexandre Couture <ac586133@...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Please all cool down and remember that Timothy Pearson is providing
> infrastructure, internet and power-hungry servers for TDE.

 which is worth respecting and appreciating.

 i trust, timothy (if you're reading this) that you're not going to be
handing over the domain name?

> Even if he does
> not participate actively on TDE anymore, what he provides is still of great
> value, probably of a few hundreds of dollars per months. Please consider TDE
> to be in maintenance mode, with changes made only to make it still work on
> newer linux systems.

 that's precisely why i recommend it for my clients, as it is *not*
modified / enhanced / feature-upgraded and so on.  my clients are
*specifically* used to KDE 3.5 and it would be an unmitigated disaster
for it to be "upgraded".

> (please don't talk to me about the top-posting thing, as I can't do anything
> else with this ms outlook account. I already proposed the idea of having a
> forum instead, but it was promptly rejected. But a forum would have avoided
> the top-posting issues...)

 forums for software development typically result in it being swamped
by AOL-style "metoo" postings... they're suitable for shallow
"end-user" conversations and utterly insane for technical development.

l.