From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9865 invoked by alias); 22 Apr 2002 16:29:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 9826 invoked by uid 492); 22 Apr 2002 16:29:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 9817 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2002 16:29:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tisch.mail.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.157) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 Apr 2002 16:29:00 -0000 Received: from 1cust236.tnt3.sea1.da.uu.net ([63.36.217.236] helo=mchase-compaq) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16zggS-0001YE-00; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:28:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:53:00 -0000 From: Michael A Chase Subject: Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING... To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Christopher Faylor MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: INLINE References: <6440EA1A6AA1D5118C6900902745938E0514F1DE@black.eng.netapp.com> <3CC0E15F.8070901@ece.gatech.edu> <20020422145525.GH2946@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20020422145525.GH2946@redhat.com> Reply-To: Michael A Chase Message-ID: X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg01207.txt.bz2 Message-ID: <20020422095300.F0zhgG50yqoH7W6i5Q5Ge4QcBpaiHbvu8xi51tOsqmw@z> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:55:25 -0400 Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 10:34:28AM -0400, Scott Evans wrote: > >Charles Wilson writes: > >>BTW, did it occur to anyone that the rapid and multiple responses to > >>this email -- which, given its tone and lack of specific content > >>qualifies as a troll by any objective measure -- serve to ENCOURAGE > >>this sort of insistent, badgering, and rude behavior? > > > >Yeah, this is weird. People ask polite questions and get slapped with > >"*eye roll* it's free software newbie, read the FAQ" ... this guy asks > >*this* and people rush to his assistance. > > It's basically because we're not mean. > > No, wait. That can't be right. _We_ aren't mean, just you. :}b -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htm Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/