From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18667 invoked by alias); 7 Mar 2012 15:23:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 18658 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Mar 2012 15:23:14 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org (HELO mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.71) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:22:55 +0000 Received: from pool-173-76-50-248.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([173.76.50.248] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S5Ihb-000Dnp-6V for cygwin-talk@cygwin.com; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:22:55 +0000 Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id A76AE13C002 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 10:22:54 -0500 (EST) X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX19yC9XOsnSwGD5HazOXs3wi Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:23:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: tip for blind users of setup.exe regarding package installation Message-ID: <20120307152254.GA27225@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com References: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A5C2A9389@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A5C2A9389@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-q1/txt/msg00015.txt.bz2 On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 06:11:55AM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote on March 06, 2012, at 10:45 PM >>On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 08:55:01PM -0500, Adam Puckett wrote: >>>I put it here to avoid being told to TITTTL. >> >>Uh, no. Tips on how to use Cygwin are certainly appropriate >>for the Cygwin list. > >Whatever one does, it is always wrong. :-) If you can't actually talk in an informative way about a cygwin utility on the cygwin list then what in the world would the cygwin list be for? Sending "git doesn't work"/"You need to rebase" mantras? Yeah, the rules are SO hard. If you want to moan and complain about a cygwin personality, take it to the talk list. If you want to talk about the great pizza that you had last night while running setup.exe, take it to the talk list. If you want to tell everyone the story of your life and how it came about that you are running cygwin, take it to the talk list. If you want to talk about hippos and their evolutionary relationship to other animals, take it to the talk list. If you want to make a sarcastic comment about something somebody said on the cygwin list, well, you could just respond to it on the cygwin list or you could take it to the talk list. You'll probably be asked to take it here eventually if you keep it up. But, then, I don't recall a time in the last several months that someone was actually told to take a discussion here. So it isn't like people are constantly being cruelly persecuted by mean mailing list snobs attempting to enforce obscure rules.