From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23472 invoked by alias); 26 May 2012 23:22:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 23464 invoked by uid 22791); 26 May 2012 23:22:51 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org (HELO Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org) (173.164.175.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 26 May 2012 23:22:39 +0000 Received: from [192.168.3.12] (Athenae [192.168.3.12]) by Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id q4QNMa2x003094 for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 16:22:38 -0700 Message-ID: <4FC165BC.9020100@tlinx.org> Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 23:22:00 -0000 From: Linda Walsh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100228 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.24 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Subject: Re: New Cygwin release References: <20120526213854.GA10950@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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-q2/txt/msg00034.txt.bz2 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!) :-)