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Date:	Tue, 9 Feb 2010 11:21:56 +0000 (GMT)
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Hello yet again,

On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:21:30AM +0000, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> >On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> >>   These both work:
> >>
> >> http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe?&go_away_proxy!
> >> http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe?go_away_proxy!
> >
> >This could work too:
> >
> >http://www.cygwin.com/setup-1.7.1-1.exe
>
> No.  It couldn't.  The first time setup-1.7.1-1 was updated you'd see
> this same critical problem.  The situation here is that I have been
> updating setup.exe to fix bugs and people are amazed and confounded by
> the behavior of their proxy caches which don't retrieve the new version.

I know what the situation is, and I've been suggesting a way of
improving it.

> Changing the name doesn't help that in any way.

[Sigh.]

Yes it does, if you change it every time you update it.

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