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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100628033436.GA15202@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eifs9rwz.fsf@gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:50:04PM +0100, Paul Bibbings wrote:
>Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> writes:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 07:58:13PM +0100, Paul Bibbings wrote:
>>>Michael Ludwig writes:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>
>> I appreciate that you've moved to cygwin-talk but this does not qualify
>> as something which is even remotely related to Cygwin in any way.  Please
>> don't discuss sports here.
>
>You set the rules.  Football, not OK.
>
>"Bacon factory fire," OK. "Missing link found," OK ...

To put a finer point on it: telling everyone how much you like a sports
team, potentially starting an incredibly boring discussion about sports:
not ok.

Sending something humorous for others to share: ok.

But, FYI, if I thought that cygwin-talk could get bogged down in a
discussion about bacon fires then I'd step in there too.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-28  3:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20100626141016.GD3672@wladimir>
     [not found] ` <3710255202.20100627051050@mtu-net.ru>
     [not found]   ` <20100627095521.GI3672@wladimir>
     [not found]     ` <20100627133726.GA5344@wladimir>
     [not found]       ` <4C27826E.8020909@monai.ca>
     [not found]         ` <20100627173112.GB5344@wladimir>
2010-06-27 18:58           ` Paul Bibbings
2010-06-27 19:06             ` Christopher Faylor
2010-06-27 19:50               ` Paul Bibbings
2010-06-27 19:53                 ` Andy Koppe
2010-06-28 13:34                   ` Warren Young
2010-06-28  3:34                 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]

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