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From: Linda Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>
To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: New Cygwin release
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 23:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FC165BC.9020100@tlinx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC4i1z2U2EG4Kwh-urwMWtU5FPKy1Lgh4XKHJNMLp+CkNcPPeg@mail.gmail.com>

David Eisner wrote:

>> Earnie's observations were spot on. �As a project maintainer himself he
>> knows what a waste of bandwidth these messages are. �If his message will
>> make someone think twice before sending something a similar "why don't
>> you do your job" message then that's a good thing.
> 
> I'm reading between the lines, but are you of the opinion that the
> hostile tone is a helpful way to keep users from sending such messages
> in the future?

----
It's just in his nature...(meant with all due love and respect, of course!)


:-)


  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-26 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <COL102-W17C80C7AC116C427EA7231B5010@phx.gbl>
     [not found] ` <CA+sc5m=OWVvx+tJpxsbsW+BGe876wUj6AVB7kcNJqYyvViFJyQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-05-25 21:05   ` David Eisner
2012-05-26 21:39     ` Christopher Faylor
2012-05-26 22:35       ` David Eisner
2012-05-26 23:22         ` Linda Walsh [this message]
2012-05-27  3:35         ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]

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