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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Churchill, Dan  \(MN65\)" <churchill_dan AT htc DOT honeywell DOT com>,
        <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: WTF?!
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 19:29:51 +1000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Churchill, Dan (MN65)" <churchill_dan AT htc DOT honeywell DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 2:23 AM
Subject: RE: WTF?!


> Chris, you are obviously a _very_ intelligent programmer/person in
general
> (I have been reading the list for several weeks now).  No one would
complain
> if you restricted yourself to only answering questions that require
your
> knowledge, either as a developer of Cygwin or as a list maintainer.
This is
> a public list with lots of other readers who are not anywhere near
your
> level of knowledge of this project, but who are intelligent enough to
field
> questions that have obvious (to you, but not to everybody) answers.

Yup, and "we" (old timers) know this. In fact on the devel list we have
had discussions about how to address this. Chris at one point
deliberately did not email unless questions seemed missed. And we all
stuck up hands to answer various questions. Earnie covers "look here"
ones. I cover pthreads and thread questions. And so on.

It is *hard* when you care about a product to let those asking for help
go unanswered. One thing worth noting is that Chris *did not* field the
question, until three!!! (or was it two?!) incorrect responses followed
up the first one. So Chris was stepping in and saying "you've got this
wrong". And thats an important thing to do, otherwise those answers
spread misinformation...

That aside though, I agree with most of what you said.

Rob


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