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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:22:48 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:10:49AM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote:
>On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Larry Hall wrote:
>>Obviously, those who disagree with me are still free to answer the
>>inevitable posts that we'll get here about the "cygwin time machine"
>>anyway.  With any luck, those posts will be few and far between so
>>there will be little need to discuss how much noise of this kind is too
>>much.
>
>Oh, come now, Larry.  We had a hugh thread going concering the
>*content* of the fortune data files, which was totally off-topic for
>Cygwin, yet we all kept on beating that horse.  Off-topic doesn't stop
>it from being discussed anyways.  :)

*Bzzzzzzzzzt* Wrong answer.

It was certainly on-topic to discuss the contents of files that are
distributed in the cygwin package.

However, even if it wasn't, pointing to previous behavior which you
consider inappropriate and using it as an excuse to do the same is
really a rather unpersuasive way to make a point.

cgf

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