Message-Id: <200505022316.j42NGLUx022722@delorie.com> 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: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 18:18:05 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20050502211604.GJ23447@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Chris, Chris, Chris. I can imagine how anxious you must be, having to wait up to several full hours for my responses to your avoid-the-issue posts, but really you only have yourself to blame. We could both go on to much more productive things if you'd simply admit that you were out of line and have been on far too many occaisions, and promise to behave better in the future. And then, if you actually do behave better in the future, why, in thirty years or so, we'll look back over a homebrew to your inexplicable rudeness and this epiphany you're having after having been called on it enough times, and O, how we'll laugh! (BTW: that's not the royal "we", that's the Cygwin community "we", which is lucky enough to be witnessing this historic event. I know you believe that you and I are some sort of "internet soulmates" or something, but, well, no, we ain't. And that's the "you and I" "we" there, lest anybody become any more confused.) Ok, fine, I'll write a short response for you here to tide you over, until such time as I can address your aforementioned avoid-the-issue posts. Don't say I never did nothin for ya. > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com > [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 4:16 PM > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of > setup.exe when setup.ini is absent > > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 03:39:51PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >- I am glad that Chris' comments clarified that. Let us all > hope that > >he applies this helpful service across the board, and not just for > >those who call him on his often bizarre behavior here. Well, except > >for the false accusations of dishonesty part, I don't think > that's very > >helpful to anybody. > > Yes, Gary, I'll be glad to respond to you again. You have > only but to profess indignation at a harmless turn of phrase You would characterize your deliberate, public, and unwarranted questioning of my honesty as "harmless", Chris? Are you so sure that such bizarre behavior does you no harm? > and I'll be there to provide you with the outlet you are > apparently looking for. > Who's looking for what now? Is that what your inexplicable rudeness and now false accusations of dishonesty are? Some sort of outlet for your pent up hatred of the Cygwin community, or "the Man", or humanity, or "the World"? One is indeed drawn to such a conclusion, in the absence of any other logical explanation. If that is so, let me ask you: Is it working? Do your snide comments ease the pain, Chris? Do they, Chris? Do they? > To just to address your hope -- with my awful email style how > could I resist putting anyone in their place who dared step > out of line? I don't know how, which is why I'm hoping you'll be able to apply this new standard in the same fair and even-handed fashion that you've applied your "puzzlingly unwarranted rudeness" policy. Heretofore, I am unaware of any instance in which you "kept anybody honest" and/or accused them of dishonesty. You certainly have to agree that implementing such a policy will be a much more involved task than randomly spraying the Cygwin mailing lists with rude comments. It will involve many hours of checking the time between various posts, poring over cvs logs, and who knows what other kinds of time-consuming research. I am well aware that you are already saddled with more than enough work. I simply hope you're up to the additional load. > Are you afraid that your strange power over me, Nobody has anything to fear from my strange power over you, Chris. > where I immediately start being helpful after you've made one > of your every-few-weeks vituperative forays into this mailing > list, might cause me to shirk my duties? > Well, I don't know what "vituperative" means, but if it's something along the lines of "When Chris is called on his inappropriate behavior, he temporarily 'shapes up', you can set your watch by it", well, frankly, yes. > Have no fear Mr. Mesmer, I'll do my duty. I can resist your > powers just enough for that, at least. > Excellent. I shall await with bated breath the first instance of you falsely accusing somebody else on this list of dishonesty! What an exciting time to be a member of the Cygwin community[1]! -- Gary R. Van Sickle [1] By "member of the Cygwin community" I of course mean what everybody knows I mean, no more, no less. Don't want to get two false accusations of dishonesty in a row! -- 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/