From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18403 invoked by alias); 13 Jul 2006 18:11:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 18396 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jul 2006 18:11:09 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:11:07 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id AAA2354C004; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:11:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:11:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: spotting cygwin ml trends Message-ID: <20060713181104.GA8759@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com References: <20060713170140.GA6736@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q3/txt/msg00025.txt.bz2 On Jul 13 13:04, mwoehlke wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > >It seems like this type of email is on the rise: > > > >" is > >since I last updated Cygwin." > > > > > > > >"Oh, I found the problem. I had previously done >hard-to-forget thing>. When I reverted that, things started working > >fine." > > > >I wonder if that's a sign of anything. It might mean that there is an > >increase in people/organizations using cygwin and they are including > >stupid instructions to work around real or imagined problems. > > There is *NEVER* a shortage of stupid people doing stupid things. :-) Wait, doesn't that mean stupidity is the perfect perpetuum mobile? Wow, finally endless energy for everybody! Unfortunately the engineers are too stupid to get it working... Corinna