Re: FW: Good old nabble

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 05:23:24PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> >On 18 April 2006 16:24, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>How delightful - a new way to confuse people about what mailing list to
> >>use for cygwin.
> >
> >Surely you mean "How delightful - another bunch of clueless newbs
> >locked away in their own little sandbox where none of us will ever have
> >to be bothered with seeing or hearing from them! Muhahahahaahaaaaa!" ?
> >;-)
>
> Yes, this will be sort of like that please-unsubscribe-me mailing list
> used for people who send "please unsubscribe me" messages.  It will just
> be a bunch of clueless users wondering why no one bothers to respond to
> them.

Oh, and it'll be filled with "me too"s, of course.  As in "I try
unsubscribe from list, why nobody reply?" -- "Me too.  What is wrong with
you people?" -- "Don't blame me, I'm also subscribed and can't
unsubscribe, and I'm a 3-year veteran of the computing profession; see my
resume". :-)

> Actually, it's a lot like the cygwin irc channel except that the users
> probably won't log out five minutes after asking a question.

It's worse, since nobody can prevent people from replying to 3-year-old
posts saying "Does this still not work" instead of just trying it out.
	Igor
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