Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/10/01/15:09:57
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 02:14:27PM -0400, Robinow, David wrote:
>> From: raphael [mailto:raphael AT oninet DOT pt]
>> Subject: Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g.,
>> alt.os.cygwin)
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:37:35AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > Please provide the URL of such a reply. Stating that a thing is so
>> > without proof is not useful.
>>
>> Glad you ask. Examine thread "Crontab problems"
>> MID <20020911204824 DOT 7327 DOT qmail AT web21008 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com>
>> it shows my point.
>>
>If that's your point it's a pretty weak one. You got two answers to
>your question. One discussed the issue at length in a way you found
>useful. The other was a correct answer, although unnecessarily
>succinct. Nicholas is known to have a strange "vi" fetish but it's
>really quite harmless. It takes two to tango and if you hadn't gone
>out of YOUR way to provoke a fight the subsequent flame-fest could have
>been avoided.
>
>Anyway, please go ahead and start your list. I'm getting tired of
>reading about it.
Good advice. Thanks, David. I'll stop arguing now, too.
I thought there were some correctable misconceptions here but I think
I over-optimistically added one too many adjectives to my thinking.
cgf
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