Re: FW: Good old nabble

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 01:08:26PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 05:23:24PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> >On 18 April 2006 16:24, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >>How delightful - a new way to confuse people about what mailing list to
>> >>use for cygwin.
>> >
>> >Surely you mean "How delightful - another bunch of clueless newbs
>> >locked away in their own little sandbox where none of us will ever have
>> >to be bothered with seeing or hearing from them! Muhahahahaahaaaaa!" ?
>> >;-)
>>
>> Yes, this will be sort of like that please-unsubscribe-me mailing list
>> used for people who send "please unsubscribe me" messages.  It will just
>> be a bunch of clueless users wondering why no one bothers to respond to
>> them.
>
>Oh, and it'll be filled with "me too"s, of course.  As in "I try
>unsubscribe from list, why nobody reply?" -- "Me too.  What is wrong with
>you people?" -- "Don't blame me, I'm also subscribed and can't
>unsubscribe, and I'm a 3-year veteran of the computing profession; see my
>resume". :-)

Actually, I was talking about a real mailing list that was in use a few
years ago.  I don't know if it is still in operation anymore.  I seem to
recall that they were forced to shut down.

I'm sure it was filled with all sorts of the above type of fun.

cgf