From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31599 invoked by alias); 27 Jul 2010 18:50:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 31590 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Jul 2010 18:50:22 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-gx0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-gx0-f171.google.com) (209.85.161.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:50:18 +0000 Received: by gxk6 with SMTP id 6so2129854gxk.2 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:50:16 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.73.29 with SMTP id v29mr10470388yba.441.1280256616595; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.226.15 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:50:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Constructive criticism From: Andy Koppe To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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: 2010-q3/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 Hmm, for some reason a post by DaveK from five years ago has become a minor sensation on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cu8fx/constructive_criticism_on_cygwins_mailing_list Granted, it is a great example of the WJM tradition: > Your code is 100% bogus and should be taken out the back, > lined up against a wall, and machine-gunned. > > Then the bleeding corpse should be hung, drawn and quartered. > > Then burnt. > > Then the smouldering rubble should be jumped up and down on. :) Andy