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Oct 23, 2002, 2:08am

You'd be surprised what they read. They just don't reply. They do have a
list for next release. There are too many items being added already to the
new browser, and if people keep pressuring them to add more, you might as
well just forget a release anytime soon. So they don't decide to reply to
every post here in the groups, so what? Doesn't mean they are not listening,
nor does it mean they have to agree with you.

Now, you may still choose to believe they don't read posts in wishlist, but
I happen to know different from conversations held with these people in beta
that are not posted on the groups. Not that I am special, just I happen to
have been around when a comment has been made by one of them referring to
such and such a post. I could name one specific post which made some very
unreasonable requests to change the browser very dramatically via MS
extensions, but I won't.

Not a single one of us knows what someone else is thinking. We only know
about ourselves... maybe :P So, unless someone comes to you and tells you
that they are explicitely ignoring something, it's only a assumption on your
part and the part of the collective thinking in this NG and serves to foster
antipathy where none was deserved.

Not only that, but they are a busy bunch. Can you imagine the hundreds and
hundreds of emails they get? OMG, I can't imagine it... that alone is a
nightmare. And the hundreds of grams they get every day when they are
spotted online? Seriously! You know all about gram hell, I've been in it,
you've been in it... we all have at one time I will bet. Now, imagine
them.... twice as many, maybe 10 fold as many... who knows. I can't imagine.
I know they very rarely reply to grams unless it is important or currently
relevant. I've sent my share of grams to Cal, and I have one ever gotten one
reply. I don't expect him to reply. Same with Grimm, or anyone else. I don't
expect Shamus to reply.

My point may be flittering here into the wind, but I'm trying to hopefully
explain why they don't reply, why they seem aloof, why the collective
conscience here seems to make them out doing only what they want and
ignoring everyone. Hello? The ideas they are currently implementing are
ideas that were once in the wishlist in the first place, and ideas that came
from current beta testers and some from old timers who have sent them
extensive emails on how something might be done. I know this.

In short, they are listening. It's just so hard to do it in all the static
they receive!

-Talisan

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