[TAG] TAG list etc

[Mike Orr]

I'm three weeks behind on all my list mail and I'm not making a lot of
headway, so if you're wondering why I haven't been jumping into the
controversies du jour and stirring more up, that's why.  Got my hands
full with the huge TurboGears list and its six or or so dependent [1]
projects.  I pretty much look for messages that *aren't* list mail or
threads I've previously written to and read those, so if you need me
for something, the best way is to email directly.

Regarding the Makefile question, I did think both Thomas and Ben were
a little harsh initially.  But when the querent turned nasty and
essentially said, "Fuck you Unix heads and all your children," I
thought, maybe Thomas and Ben
are better at recognizing those kind of people than I am.

As far as opening the list archives, that brings up issues of querent
privacy, publishability, copyright, etc, for material we wouldn't
publish.  The archives don't have *better* answers than the zine coz
we put the best stuff in the zine.  And if people want to see what
kind of flakes we put up with, well, there's a representative sample
of that in the zine too.

[1] I know dependent is for the thing that depends rather than the
thing that's depended on, but is there an adjective for going the
other way?  Saying "depended-on projects" would be more correct but
unwieldly.  I suppose I could say "dependencies" but that loses a bit
of precision as to what kind of thing it is.

--
Mike Orr <sluggoster at gmail.com>
(mso at oz.net address is semi-reliable)