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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:10:21 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)
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On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 02:14:27PM -0400, Robinow, David wrote:
>> From: raphael [mailto:raphael AT oninet DOT pt]
>> Subject: Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., 
>> alt.os.cygwin)
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:37:35AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > Please provide the URL of such a reply.  Stating that a thing is so
>> > without proof is not useful.
>> 
>> Glad you ask. Examine thread "Crontab problems" 
>> MID <20020911204824 DOT 7327 DOT qmail AT web21008 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com>
>> it shows my point.
>> 
>If that's your point it's a pretty weak one.  You got two answers to
>your question.  One discussed the issue at length in a way you found
>useful.  The other was a correct answer, although unnecessarily
>succinct.  Nicholas is known to have a strange "vi" fetish but it's
>really quite harmless.  It takes two to tango and if you hadn't gone
>out of YOUR way to provoke a fight the subsequent flame-fest could have
>been avoided.
>
>Anyway, please go ahead and start your list.  I'm getting tired of
>reading about it.

Good advice.  Thanks, David.  I'll stop arguing now, too.

I thought there were some correctable misconceptions here but I think
I over-optimistically added one too many adjectives to my thinking.

cgf

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