From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26800 invoked by alias); 18 Apr 2006 17:08:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 26793 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Apr 2006 17:08:34 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ACCESS1.CIMS.NYU.EDU (HELO access1.cims.nyu.edu) (128.122.81.155) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:08:28 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by access1.cims.nyu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3IH8QYJ029129 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:08:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:08:00 -0000 From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: FW: Good old nabble In-Reply-To: <20060418163647.GD23745@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: References: <001a01c66304$6ae21be0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <20060418163647.GD23745@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List X-SW-Source: 2006-q2/txt/msg00043.txt.bz2 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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"