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On 04/29/2013 04:28 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> On 4/29/2013 11:26, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> The net is full of bad and outdated advice about Cygwin.
>
> Stack Overflow gives you the tools to fix that.  Post comments, post 
> better answers, edit incorrect answers, downvote bad answers, vote to 
> delete unhelpful answers, and gain reputation to get moderator fu.
>
> Mailing lists give you only some of those abilities, and the powers 
> that do exist are weaker here:
>
>
Then please keep SO and its public posts off the search engines.  If the 
people with rep there are intent on misleading outsiders, it's not the 
thing to replace other resources.

-- 
Tim Prince


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