Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: cgf-cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:28:25 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: Michael A Chase Subject: Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING... To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Christopher Faylor MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: INLINE References: <6440EA1A6AA1D5118C6900902745938E0514F1DE@black.eng.netapp.com> <3CC0E15F.8070901@ece.gatech.edu> <20020422145525.GH2946@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20020422145525.GH2946@redhat.com> Reply-To: Michael A Chase Message-Id: On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:55:25 -0400 Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 10:34:28AM -0400, Scott Evans wrote: > >Charles Wilson writes: > >>BTW, did it occur to anyone that the rapid and multiple responses to > >>this email -- which, given its tone and lack of specific content > >>qualifies as a troll by any objective measure -- serve to ENCOURAGE > >>this sort of insistent, badgering, and rude behavior? > > > >Yeah, this is weird. People ask polite questions and get slapped with > >"*eye roll* it's free software newbie, read the FAQ" ... this guy asks > >*this* and people rush to his assistance. > > It's basically because we're not mean. > > No, wait. That can't be right. _We_ aren't mean, just you. :}b -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htm Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- 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/