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 Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:10:21 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin) Message-ID: <20021001191021.GB18544@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <80575AFA5F0DD31197CE00805F650D767B22D0@wilber.adroit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <80575AFA5F0DD31197CE00805F650D767B22D0@wilber.adroit.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 02:14:27PM -0400, Robinow, David wrote: >> From: raphael [mailto:raphael@oninet.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 <20020911204824.7327.qmail@web21008.mail.yahoo.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 -- 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/