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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 14:20:12 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide
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At 14:15 2003-03-27, you wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 AT 04:11:35PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > >***Groan***!  Oh, no!  Now look what you've done!
> > >Next thing you know, we'll be having a contest for the best Cygwin
> > >documentation poem!  With the winner being awarded "gold stars" by cgf!
> > >;-)
> >
> > Let the games begin.  If it's cygwin related it won't be a sin.  So, no
> > reason to be mean and it will even be humorous; or maybe that remains to
> > be seen.
>
>There was a young woman named Linda.
>She had problems installing a window:
>As she clicked on setup,
>It just crashed with a pop,
>And then burned her machine to a cinder.
>
> > Still waiting for that gold star web page.  Elfyn?  You volunteering?
> > cgf
>
>Oh, *that*...  I have that ready to check in.  Except...  What was Elfyn's
>first star for?  Can't find it in the archives...
>     Igor


Igor,

 From the subject thread entitled "[PATCH] Trivial pthread testsuite fixes":

>On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:23:31PM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> >> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> >>
> >> > Brian,
> >> >
> >> > Your patch may get more attention from the cygwin-patches mailing list
> >as
> >> > per <http://cygwin.com/lists.html>.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Yes, but it is by subscription only.
> >>
> >> I prefer to read the archives, at least until they are password protected
> >> also.  It seems silly to me that in order to submit a Cygwin patch to the
> >> appropriate mailing list, you must receive all such patches in your
> >> inbox.
> >
> >If you just want posting privilages read the last few (4-5) lines of
> ><http://www.cygwin.com/ml/#rbl-sucks>.
>
>**cgf sends Elfyn a virtual gold star.
>
>cgf


I think the gold star was for pointing a plaintiff to the on-line documentation

Randall Schulz


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