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: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 14:10:42 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin) Message-ID: <20021001181042.GA18544@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <3B2480653E7D2C4E8AA5699598D691C4230051 AT xch-se-03 DOT se DOT nos DOT boeing DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B2480653E7D2C4E8AA5699598D691C4230051@xch-se-03.se.nos.boeing.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:25:00AM -0500, Lane, Frank L wrote: >As a newbie to cygwin I'd like to put a comment in on this one. > >Even if people are brusque, without being a downright rude, newbie's, >like moi, learn and more importantly are helped to learn what questions >are apropos on what lists. Perhaps even more importantly we also learn >how to frame our questions in terms of the "group speak". Hell, be >brusque, but do so in a constructive manner. > >Sometimes faq's and archives are difficult to go through unless you >know exactly how to frame your searches. > >Thanks for the bandwidth, I'm not sure what you're saying but, sure, unhelpful responses are... unhelpful. I will occasionally post an attempt at a humorous response but I usually only do this when I know that one of the regulars will be following along behind me, cleaning up behind me with an actual answer to a question. As I keep saying, I think that 99% of the responses here are pretty helpful. Otherwise, your points are all well taken. cgf -- 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/