Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:28:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Eduardo Chappa To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin) In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.5.2.20020930172951.00a6b8a8@mail.earthlink.net> Message-ID: References: <200209301154 DOT g8UBssX27530 AT mailgate5 DOT cinetic DOT de> <20020930131716 DOT GD23881 AT redhat DOT com> <5 DOT 1 DOT 1 DOT 5 DOT 2 DOT 20020930172951 DOT 00a6b8a8 AT mail DOT earthlink DOT net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII *** Jeremy Hetzler (jeremyhetzler AT earthlink DOT net) wrote today: :) A group that does all the work to answer anyone's question, no matter :) how obvious the answer or easy to find it is elsewhere, no matter that :) it is the hundredth time it has been asked that week? Yes, that sounds :) like a wonderful thing...for the people who are asking the questions. :) But who's going to do all that work? Where you are going to find these :) angels who want to spend their free time explaining "What's bash" over :) and over and over to people who are too lazy to even try Google? Dear Jeremy, I agree in some of the stuff you say. Answering the same question over and over is tiresome. Right. However, you are making the assumption that the only type of questions that people can ask in such a list is a basic question asked millions of times before. I will have to disagree with you, there's no proof of that, just an assumption from your part. Let me tell you how I see this. When I've supported Pine, I haven't looked at the content of the question as much as I've looked at the value of the answer. Just to give you an example, someone once asked me if Pine supported justification of several levels of quotes. The answer at the time was "no". If that person had not asked that question, I would have never written a patch for Pine that implements such a feature. Same thing about fancy thread interface in Pine4.44. If you believe that everything is about the question, I believe that you are missing a lot. It's never been about the question, but the answer, no matter how many times the question has been asked before. -- Eduardo http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/ -- 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/