On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:50:48AM +0000, Jason Winter wrote: >>Now it's me "of all people". > >No. It's you, Cygwin. (A group of developers.) Or *you* wouldn't be >replying to me as if you have some invested interest.
It's me, "Cygwin". Ok. At least you didn't call me Shirley. >>The point was how little sense it makes to insult people by telling >>them that they should know better. >... >>Obviously you were not explaining yourself very well and your >>poor communication on this issue... > >That's your opinion, and at a minimum, is no less insulting. (Thanks for >the lesson.) Yes, it was certainly my opinion. Make no mistake about that. However, it is also my opinion that it is not insulting to suggest that someone was unclear on a specific issue. Perhaps I should have been clearer myself since I've been known to be *woefully* imprecise as well. To attempt some additional clarity: On rereading your mail, I, a native English speaker, found myself scratching my head over what you were talking about. So, I can understand Corinna's innocent question since, in my opinion, your intent was unclear. Again, I did not say "you suck at communicating". I said that you weren't explaining yourself well on this issue. However, you are again not addressing the point, again, choosing to redirect it at me (i.e., "Cygwin"). The point? Even if the rest of the cygwin populace found your message crystal clear, IMO, the use of a hackle-raising observation like "you should know better than to ask such a question" is not a polite way to treat someone who volunteers their time to provide you with a free service and is not conducive to future collaboration. You can take this observation or (most likely) leave it. But, that's certainly it for me on this. Thanks for your contributions to this thread on tape handling, however. I think it is obvious that your willingness to work with Corinna prior to this point were to the benefit of cygwin's tape handling code. Although I'm sure that the code worked fine for Corinna for her needs, she has taken some of her time to make Cygwin more linux-like; which will undoubtedly benefit other people in the future. -- Christopher Faylor Cygwin Project Leader Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
