From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15120 invoked by alias); 7 Mar 2012 20:36:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 14992 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Mar 2012 20:36:21 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-vw0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-vw0-f43.google.com) (209.85.212.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:36:08 +0000 Received: by vbbfq11 with SMTP id fq11so7113632vbb.2 for ; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:36:07 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.27.10 with SMTP id p10mr5815594vdg.16.1331152567555; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:36:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.52.166.34 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:36:07 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120307152254.GA27225@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> References: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A5C2A9389@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> <20120307152254.GA27225@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:36:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: tip for blind users of setup.exe regarding package installation From: Adam Puckett To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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-q1/txt/msg00016.txt.bz2 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. =A0You'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. =A0So 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.