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: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:55:24 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: ssh configuration that is pulling my hair out! Message-ID: <20040126195524.GA17074@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <6 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 20040126123546 DOT 03cde5b0 AT 127 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 1> <20040126184150 DOT GC15847 AT redhat DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 11:16:26AM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>I actually suspect that this is one of many cases where a FAQ entry >>would be of little help and I'm always wary of adding so much verbiage >>to the FAQ that it becomes unusable. > >I suppose it's the same thought process that prompts people who install >3rd party products built on top of ancient versions of Cygwin to come >over here to ask for help with their installation. Although that is also irritating, I don't see that as the same thing. In the 3rd party scenario, it's often just someone who wants their XYZ package to work and have never heard about cygwin. They notice that their package doesn't work in some way, notice that it uses cygwin, do a google search to find out about cygwin, and send email here. All of this is despite the fact that by so doing they have to find a mailing list description which says this: o Questions about other Cygwin releases not downloaded from http://cygwin.com/ or its mirrors are strongly discouraged. In theory, there should be better forums for discussing this kind of unsponsored software than the cygwin mailing list. This should, in theory, be better than a FAQ since it is *right there* when you first find out about the mailing list. This is why I have little confidence that a FAQ entry will be useful. The Erdely situation is different, IMO. Someone downloads cygwin SSH directly from the cygwin site and finds instructions for installing at erdelynet. They don't work so the person bypasses the mailing list at erdelynet and returns to the cygwin mailing list. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me, so I suspect that something else is going on. cgf -- 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/