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 From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" To: Subject: RE: whereis telnet? Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 00:01:59 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: <20030212044132.GB22968@redhat.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:17:31AM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote: > >Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >>Maybe we should be making Cygwin setup harder to use, not easier. > >>Sure, some people will complain, but Cygwin will have a much more > >>robust user base... > > > >Hmm. I *like* this idea! :-) > > Well, *I* don't. But, possibly that's because I didn't think of it > first. :-) > > I agree that cygwin users seem to be getting both more helpless and > more entitled. > > One theory of mine is that I keep tweaking the web pages when I notice > common problems. I've probably added enough words to the web page that > people are thinking "No way am I going to read that! I'll just send > email to postmaster!" Btw, cygwin email to postmaster is also at an > all time high... > > cgf I'm tellin' you guys, Cyppy is the solution to this and all other problems. He could have his own list, cyppy@. He could be a perl script that regex's the incoming mail, eg. ".*it[[:space:]]worked[[:space:]]in[[:space:]]B20.*", and send back an answer straight from the FAQ along with an autographed copy of that ASCII rendition of himself. Or even an honest-to-God JPG if they send HTML. Everybody wins! -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. -- 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/