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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:17:43 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Mailing list etiquette [Was: Re: SETUP WIZARD FOR CYGWIN?XFREE86]
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In-Reply-To: <3B5DBF1D.1000307@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:31:57PM -0400

For the record, I've sent Bobby private email a couple of times warning
him about off-topic posts.  I've gotten private complaints from readers
of this mailing list about his messages.

I've actually started composing several public messages in the last few
days announcing "This is your last warning" but I really really really
hate blocking people from posting here unless they are actually clueless
spammers.

So, I appreciate Chuck's analysis here.  It was better than I could have
done.

Bobby, *please* think three times before sending email here.  To be
blunt, 99% of what you send is really of questionable value.

cgf

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:31:57PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Bobby:
>1) Why was your message quoted below part of the "SETUP WIZARD FOR 
>CYGWIN?XFREE86" thread? What does it have to do with anything that had 
>been discussed in that thread previously? If you wanted to post this 
>message to the list, it should have been a NEW message with a NEW 
>subject heading.  I note that this is a common practice for you, Bobby 
>-- you often reply to an ongoing thread with a new topic.  *Don't do 
>that*.  New topic == New subject line, new thread.
>
>If you really want to tie it to the previous thread, you can use the 
>Was: modifier like I did in this message.
>
>#2) Why was your message directed to egor? ("egor, I'm final...") Is it 
>part of an ongoing private conversation you've been having with him?  If 
>so, then it should have been a private email.  If not, is there some 
>context that makes a mingw port of CSound particularly interesting to 
>egor, yet requires that the message be public?
>
>For instance, I addressed this email to you, Bobby, because the context 
>is: I am commenting directly on the content of YOUR earlier message.  I 
>don't see how your message (again, as quoted below) directly relates to 
>egor's prior posting; therefore it shouldn't have been addressed to him 
>AFAICT.  Furthermore, I posted this message to the public list, rather 
>than sending privately, because I feel that a public discussion of 
>mailing list etiquette as expected on cygwin@ may be useful.
>
>#3) I kind of doubt that your message, as quoted below, was of interest 
>to the list, since the message concerns a port of CSound to Win32, using 
>the mingw compiler -- not cygwin.
>
>Perhaps you should have announced your Csound port on the mingw mailing 
>list?

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