From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6797 invoked by alias); 25 Jul 2002 21:37:30 -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 6789 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2002 21:37:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bellana) (213.58.34.200) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Jul 2002 21:37:29 -0000 Received: from toos ([192.168.0.231]:1367) by bellana with esmtp (Exim 4.04) id GZTPYN-00014K-00; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 21:20:47 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (port=1286 helo=toos) by toos with esmtp (Exim 4.04) id GZTQ34-000108-00; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 21:23:28 +0000 Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 18:54:00 -0000 From: Raphael To: Jim George cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: FYI: HTML targets in "Smart Questions" In-Reply-To: <00cd01c23285$9c42ae10$0400a8c0@JIMGEORGE> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg02036.txt.bz2 On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Jim George wrote: Raphael: > > Include The Aunt Emily Faq in the welcome faq I would suggest, I myself > > hate forinstance the wellbehaved educaters on this list who do not seem to > > understand how the quoting machanisme works and persist in giving answers > > above a message. But this is not the issue here. > > And of course you realise that that means someone is going to comment on it > ;) > The problem is that there are so few good mail clients for cygwin, indeed I > can only think of pine and sylpheed (the latter I'm only just compiling at > the moment). Also there seems to be no standard as far as whether you > answer above or below a previous mail...I've been involved in linux, > windows, database, and mac mailing lists and they all have different > beliefs! One to set a standard? The standard very well exist and is not set by any warez, for more informaition check http://www.faqs.org > > I propose a cygwin-gurus. > Agreed and a cygwin-dummies (where I will while away the rest of my hours > replying to mails above and below and in between as my mood takes me :) ). Nobody is able to stop you replying the way you want. Fact is the readability of your message greatly promotes your message, I myself skip message that I have to read upside down. > > No, but surely if *everyone* on this list (gurus and newbies alike) > > asked questions the "smart way" we'd all reap the benefits of a > > better and more fruitful mailing list. > > > If you send them to redhat university they wouldn't even have to ask smart > > questions, they would know smart answers upfront and where a hat (probably > > red) with the letters Guru on it. > Now you want to start a 'who is the best distribution' war? You mean MicroSoft? (Raphael ducking!) > > Thanks for your comments, you've helped me sharpen my thinking on > > this somewhat controversial topic. > > > Thank you for your comments. > > Raphael who is now somewhat upset. > Cheer up I've finished too. OK ;-) -- 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/