From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17992 invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2010 04:46:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 17981 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Jan 2010 04:46:25 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ew0-f222.google.com (HELO mail-ew0-f222.google.com) (209.85.219.222) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:46:21 +0000 Received: by ewy22 with SMTP id 22so6949233ewy.19 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:46:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.42.73 with SMTP id r9mr495724ebe.4.1264049177962; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:46:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.2.99? (cpc2-cmbg8-0-0-cust61.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [82.6.108.62]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm925050eya.43.2010.01.20.20.46.15 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:46:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B57E018.9050703@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:46:00 -0000 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Vulgar And Hey-Babe-Wanna-Come-Back-To-My-Place-And-See-My-Patches Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: [Fwd: Dave Korn appointed Cygwin maintainer] References: <4B57C53D.7000006@cwilson.fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <4B57C53D.7000006@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2010-q1/txt/msg00011.txt.bz2 On 21/01/2010 03:08, Charles Wilson wrote: > Congratulations, Dave! Well deserved. Heh, so, I "deserve" a bunch of extra responsibility and unpaid work? It's a burden, not an enjoyably-abusable source of arbitrary executive power!(*) Hell, I don't think I can even use it to impress the girls :-P I blame the abolition of national service myself. A spell in the army when I was a whippersnapper would have taught me never to volunteer for anything! cheers, DaveK -- * - I will, nonetheless, unhesitatingly accept bribes.