X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:14:43 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: hacked package on server Message-ID: <20070716211443.GB4858@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <12471618.1184601552985.JavaMail.root@elwamui-lapwing.atl.sa.earthlink.net> <183c528b0707161244s83639c9j8ddfb09da2948f29@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <183c528b0707161244s83639c9j8ddfb09da2948f29@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 03:44:51PM -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: >Yes, everyone now has been quite hilarious on this part of the matter, >but I think it's time to get past the arrogance and, god forbid, >consider that a user's reported problem, oh my god, might actually be a >problem! You did receive one response with a suggestion: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00396.html I don't see how it's productive for you to assume humor-as-arrogance and respond to that but avoid responding to the suggestion. >Any time there's a report of a user having a problem with an interface, >*especially* one that's _supposedly_ so easy and obvious, why not >address it? Or why not AT LEAST take a thought and say to yourself, >"if something is supposed to be so simple and obvious, and yet someone >is having a problem with it, maybe *I* am making an assumption about >the simplicity of it?" Ok. I'll bite. Has anyone done a google search to see if anyone else was confused by this message? The message seems pretty clear to me and not something that I would misinterpret. It doesn't seem like this is something that anyone should take a lot of time fixing if we've only gotten one complaint. OTOH, if more people have been confused by the message then possibly it is something worth changing. 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/