> From: Christopher Faylor
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 3:52 AM
> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 11:11:04PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
> >> From: Brian Kelly
> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 6:58 PM
> >
> >>>>I'd like to use on other machines as well - without Cygwin. Any
> >>>>opinions?
> >>
> >>>cgf writes -> I have one: Find another mailing list if you want to
> >>>discuss ways of not using cygwin. This is a mailing list devoted to
> >>>actually *using* cygwin.
> >>
> >>I've read a LOT of cgf's one liner's, but this one *actually* broke me
> >>up for a change! (I'm still chuckling!)
> >
> >Well, many times I find these kind of boring and rather counter
> >productive.
[1]
> > This time I believe he even bites his own tail ;-p .
> >
> >The OP has no other way than actually use cygwin (i.e. the
> >cygwin1.dll) - thus m[rs] OP should be welcome here - according to any
> >rules I can understand. Nuff said.
>
> What an odd interpretation of my email.
>
> I did not say there was no other way to do this. I pointed the "OP" at
> the mingw project web page. If there is another way, that project would
> be the appropriate place to start looking.
>
> There's certainly no reason to do what you seem to be suggesting and lie
> to someone to keep them "within the cygwin fold" or to encourage people
> to talk about applications that have nothing to do with cygwin.
>
> If this is really the way you want to do things then I strongly
> encourage you to start your own mailing list. You can even fill it with
> your own non-boring and productive missives, assuming you are capable of
> such things.
[5]
>
> cgf
<pondering> Allright, I'll bite - a bit. The following is just my personal
POV and nothing else, there is no need to take offence - the intention is
nothing in line with that; I'll tell you some hard facts from *my* POV.
First; [1] might be fun for some people - I'm NOT one of those.
I *DISPISE* people making fun of someone[3] who is _trying_ to be serious.
(There is a lot of similes(wd? comparable stories) to be told here)
The style and tone here on the list has a lot of "WJM" at times[7]. Beeing
some kind of guru doesn't excuse beeing rude[2], for whatever the reason.
The sentence at [5] should be included here - you never pondered a tiny bit
on _why_ I wrote the above, did you?
PGA to that style of writing. Or should I say PSBGA. (SB=Should Be)
To conclude it all:
IMO you could achieve the same with more style, yet be as effective - or
might it even be MORE[6] effective - by adding some of those belowed[4]
"Please"-words. Thus not demolishing bridges behind you...
[2] apply any shade, nuance or gradation yourself - I'm too tired.
[3] his/hers wording, style of speach, mistake - you name it.
[4] by english speaking people (Not all langauges has a word like that)
[6] I would put a _very strong_ emphasise here, if I were speaking.
[7] I'm specially appalled when I see "WJM" in response to a first time
poster.
Now, EOT for the time beeing.
/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E
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