X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:30:56 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: FW: Re: Problem when using variable assignment, backticks in shell script Message-ID: <20060831173056.GE8968@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 11:56:31AM -0400, Charli Li wrote: >cgf wrote: >>On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:04:08PM +0200, CARTER Alan wrote: >>>>Hmm... 9 lines of content, 10 of disclaimer... *sip!* Eew, and the >>>>disclaimer isn't even line-wrapped... >>> >>>>(How come PCYMTNILOAUD is not on the OLOCA yet? ;-)) >>> >>>Ah. You think I typed that, myself? I didn't. It was automatically >>>appended by the local email system. Many corporate email systems do >>>this kind of thing, because (IMHO) the people that run them are more >>>concerned with posturing within their own value system (which does not >>>map to reality) than they are with doing anything useful. >> >>Whether you typed it yourself or not, those type of disclaimers are >>actually not allowed in mail to mailing lists at this site: >> >>http://sourceware.org/lists.html >> >>The same thing holds true for gcc.gnu.org. >> >>cygwin.com == sourceware.org == gcc.gnu.org >> >>Please find some other way of sending email which does not try to >>enforce some kind of faux-legal obligations on the reader. > >Thread TITTTL'd! Um. Recent gold stars aside, I really am capable of deciding when something is or is not on-topic here. I'm not going to force someone else to respond in another mailing list when I think something is of general importance to the people reading the list here. In this case, I specifically responded here since I was talking about a policy statement for this site and for this mailing list. While I am certainly sensitive to increasing traffic in this list, talking about policies is not off-topic here -- not that there is much to talk about. If you really want to advocate for a policy change then neither this mailing list nor cygwin-talk is the place to do so. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/