Re: CLARIFICATION: Help with timing issues

[Ivan Kohler <ivan@voicenet.com>]

At 08:25 AM 1/27/97 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>Ivan Kohler wrote:
>    
>    At 08:33 AM 1/26/97 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>    >David Hoffman wrote:
>    >    
>    >    I have now received a few messages in response to my first note 
>    >    (posted below). I assumed that since this mailing group was
supposed 
>    >    to be related to flexfax / hylafax, that it would be assumed that 
>    >    that was what I was writing about. Sorry for the confusion.
>    >    
>    >    However, I am asking about the timing of re-queued messages in 
>    >    HYLAFAX. For example, an alphapage request is queued and for some 
>    >    reason fails on the first attempt. It is re-scheduled for 15
minutes 
>    >    later. I would like to set this to a shorter time, say 1 minute 
>    >    later.  Any help???
>    >    
>    >read the manual; check sendpage(1) for the flag -l and hfaxd(1M) for
>    >the config values of PriorityMap and RetryTimeMap
>    >
>    >BTW: If you have looked through all of the documentation did you
>    >notice that the spelling is ``HylaFAX'' and not HYLAFAX and also not
>    >hylafax or anything else?
>    
>    Hello matthias,
>    
>    While I and others appriciate you taking the time to answer questions
about
>    HylaFAX (yes, I spelled and capitialized it correctly)... does it really
>    matter?
>
>HylaFAX is software. Writing, solving problems and debugging
>this and other software start allways with understanding the bits
>of this software. The bits of the word HylaFAX and hylafax are
>very different (don't know if my bad English let you understand
>my point that I mean precision with the word "bit"). That's also
>why one should provide correct and precise information (like version,
>type of operating system, trace-files, command line arguments etc.)
>if one is asking for help or complaining about bugs. None of
>this information was included in the original email of David.
>I had a private email discussion with David and it later showed
>up that he is using the old version v3.0 and my hint about hfaxd(1M)
>was wrong (there was no hfaxd(1M) in v3.0)). Take this for an
>example that without precise information in the question every answer
>maybe wrong or useless.
>
>Despide of this HylaFAX(tm) is a trademark,

I agree.  I've done my share of RTFM'ing and telling people to RTFM.  I'm
just saying that there is absolutely no reason to be anal (uptight) about
how people spell, capitalize and punctuate HylaFAX or hylafax or HYLAFAX or
_hYlA-fAx_.