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On 4/30/2012 12:34 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:29:27PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> On 4/28/2012 8:51 PM, Nick Lowe wrote: >>> "I installed 2.772 on my systems as soon as it was available and I >>> don't see any such issue using my local mirror. Did you try another >>> mirror?" >>> >>> Quite, but the idea of corruption was implicit in that question. A >>> digital signature would rule that out. >> >> <snip> >> >> Not in this case, no. You inferred the wrong thing from the quote >> above. Corinna's suggestion was that the mirror containing the packages >> was malformed in some way, not that that 'setup.exe' itself was >> somehow corrupted. >> >>> What's with the hostility? It's really bad etiquette... ;) >> >> That would be<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJM>. It makes life more >> livable. :-) > > Or, it could also be that hostility was inexplicably inferred where > none was intended, i.e., "We're communicating on the internet!" Oh, THAT. Yeah, it could just be that. ;-) But seriously, yes. I know I didn't read any hostility in your reply. My response was a (very) roundabout way of saying that. The smiley was clearly too subtle. :-( Sorry 'bout that. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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