People Who Don't Read the Documentation
Posted by Trejkaz Sat, 18 Dec 2004 01:43:00 GMT
Recently spotted on the jadmin mailing lists:
Hello,
I have installed 2 Jabber Servers and I want interconnect themelves?
Can you help me ?
Do people get on the Sendmail or Postfix mailing lists, asking how to configure two mail servers to talk to each other?
If they don’t, why? Mail and instant messaging are very similar in this regard. All you need for two IM servers to talk is that the names resolve. All you need for two email servers to talk is that the names resolve. It isn’t fucking rocket science.
It’s clear that half the people who ask questions on this mailing list haven’t even read the documentation for what they’re trying to install, but what’s worse is that two servers will interconnect automatically without any special configuration. So perhaps this breed of idiot doesn’t even try to see if their configuration already works as expected.
People must have this expectation that Jabber is like IRC, and you have to manually configure which servers can connect to. Such a thing would only have ended up with a network like IRC