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From: Adam Puckett <adotsdothmusic@gmail.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: tip for blind users of setup.exe regarding package installation
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:36:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK1FW3Ux+z=sD8SFZVNTMHWLZxg9NneGBosht5rR7=y11vFG9A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120307152254.GA27225@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:22 AM , Christopher Faylor wrote:

> 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.

Thanks, CGF, for clearing that up.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-07 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-07 11:12 Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2012-03-07 11:21 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-03-07 15:23 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-03-07 20:36   ` Adam Puckett [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-03-07  1:11 Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2012-03-07  1:55 ` Adam Puckett
2012-03-07  3:45   ` Christopher Faylor
2012-03-05 15:58 Adam Puckett

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