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: "Dave Korn" To: "'Cygwin List'" Subject: RE: ssh configuration that is pulling my hair out! Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:34:29 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040126123546.03cde5b0@127.0.0.1> Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Jan 2004 18:34:30.0062 (UTC) FILETIME=[08EF74E0:01C3E43B] > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Larry Hall > Otherwise, adding what should be obvious to the FAQ isn't > going to pass muster. The FAQ isn't the place for the obvious. AYS? The FAQ is the place for _frequently_ asked questions, and I've always assumed that frequency of questions is orthogonal to whether they're obvious or not[*]. After all, its whole raison d'etre is to save the list the bother of having to repeatedly answer the same questions that come up time after time after time.... Surely that's justification for putting any question (no matter how obvious the answer) in the FAQ solely on the grounds of how often it crops up? OTOH 'frequently' in this context should imply 'asked by a variety of different people', rather than 'asked by one person repeatedly'.... ;) cheers, DaveK -- [*] It is of course a depressing fact of the human condition that where you'd expect there to be an inverse correlation between obviousness of the answer to a question and frequency with which that question gets asked, in practice the correlation seems to be positive.[**] [**] And if that's not depressing enough, it also seems that the positive correlation is more likely exponential than linear...... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/