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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: mirror site
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:39:11 +0100
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----Original Message----
>From: zzapper
>Sent: 12 July 2005 12:16

> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:36:24 -0400,  wrote:
> 
> 
>>> The last paragraph on that page states "If a site is listed here that
>>> seems to be out-of-date for some period of time, that could mean that
>>> there is a problem. Contact sourcemaster at this site to report this
>>> potential problem. sourcemaster is also the place to send requests to
>>> be added to this list."    
>>> 
>>> See the last sentence.
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you David.  If I could give out a gold star, I would do so! :-)
>> This is not to denigrate Rong-En Fan.  It's just a compliment to David.
>> It saved me the need to make the same point. :-)
> 
> Increasingly we skim read on the Internet, the last sentence of the above
> page is a good example of how an important piece of info is
> "skim-hidden", ideally would be a separate paragraph 

http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PTC!

  Gotta admit, I read that page over and over and still didn't spot it.

    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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