From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26165 invoked by alias); 13 Jul 2006 18:24:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 26158 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jul 2006 18:24:32 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-71-248-179-44.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (71.248.179.44) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:24:31 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id B47AD13C020; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:24:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:24:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: spotting cygwin ml trends Message-ID: <20060713182429.GB6829@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List 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/1.5.11 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/msg00026.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 01:04:48PM -0500, 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. :-) Right. I'm theorizing that cygwin's popularity is widening and we're coming in contact with more of them. cgf