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Re: spotting cygwin ml trends
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:24:29 -0400
- Subject: Re: spotting cygwin ml trends
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On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 01:04:48PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>It seems like this type of email is on the rise:
>>
>>"<some program in the cygwin distribution> is <describe strange behavior>
>>since I last updated Cygwin."
>>
>><send several messages expressing confusion and consternation>
>>
>>"Oh, I found the problem. I had previously done <describe unusual and
>>hard-to-forget thing>. When I reverted that, things started working
>>fine."
>>
>>I wonder if that's a sign of anything. It might mean that there is an
>>increase in people/organizations using cygwin and they are including
>>stupid instructions to work around real or imagined problems.
>
>There is *NEVER* a shortage of stupid people doing stupid things. :-)
Right. I'm theorizing that cygwin's popularity is widening and we're coming
in contact with more of them.
cgf