Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3B424F0C.6010109@gruntose.com> Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 19:02:36 -0400 From: "Fred T. Hamster" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: I ask a small favor of Mr. Hamster (was "shouted down" etc) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thomas Widlar wrote: > "Fred T. Hamster": > > > it could be an affectation... {snip} could it just be what feels best to me? > > The window opens. All of the above plus annoy. > > i will probably stop capitalizing in the manner that appeals to my > > sensibilities just after the rampant misspellings on the net stop for > > good... > > I'll stop torturing the dog when Johnny likes spinach and can > play the violin. > Thomas Widlar sigh... i know i opened a window by responding, but i felt compelled to since this thread got started with my name in it. lower case email has never been a real issue before. i suspect it's not much of a real issue now either, since the first posting was pretty humorous. my blank verse style response (quoted partially above) really shouldn't be taken as much more than the puerile attempt at humor it was intended to be. (note to self: and neither should thomas' email perhaps. maybe i'm missing deep wisdom though.) all this started when i submitted what i thought to be a fairly reasonable bug report regarding zip... (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-06/msg01507.html) it is pretty bizarre how the issue changed, and i do admit that i over-reacted to or misinterpreted the sense of people's responses a few times. i don't think i'm unique in that regard; some here have been honest enough to admit their misinterpretation of my meaning as well. thanks to the list's contributing members, all of my questions have been answered. only thing i know of that's pending is an investigation into the glob() function by yours truly. i can't help but suspect that this particular "favor" thread really is a huge waste of time, and not just for myself. i vow to stop responding on it, despite any potential provocations... but it does seem off topic and unnecessary. once i've apologized for a transgression (iratus cerebrum eruptus), i don't consider it necessary to do it over and over again. if someone didn't believe it the first time, that person is not going to believe it the second or millionth time either. any real issues you have with me--let's talk about them in private email. i suggest others do the same. thanks, fred. ps: please stop torturing dogs... -- _____ chosen by the Nechung Oracle Program [ http://www.gruntose.com/ ] _____ Both the assembling and the distribution of knowledge in the world at present are extremely ineffective, and thinkers of the forward- looking type whose ideas we are now considering, are beginning to realize that the most hopeful line for the development of our racial intelligence lies rather in the direction of creating a new world organ for the collection, indexing, summarizing and release of knowledge, than in any further tinkering with the highly conservative and resistant university system, local, national, and traditional in texture, which already exists. -- H. G. Wells (1937) _____________ not necessarily my opinions, not necessarily not. _____________ -- 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/