RE: typical cygwin bug communications (long)

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Dave Korn wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of One Angry User
> > Sent: 06 December 2004 14:13
> > To: Talk Amongst Yourselves
> > Subject: Re: typical cygwin bug communications (long)
> >
> > On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> >
> > > Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > > I am trying to compile openoffice and it says "syntax error".
> > > >
> > > > Please help!
> > >
> > > When will the port be finished?
> > >
> > > Gerrit
> >
> > Yeah, I want my OpenOffice NOW!  You Cygwin guys SUCK!  Why can't you
> > be more like LINUX?!!!  And don't tell me that you're MEAN -- I KNOW
> > you are!
> >
> > O. A. User
> > The Lusers Forum
> > --
> > `. The 50-line signature with a meaningless legal disclaimer goes here .'
>
>   Your socks are showing!  You can't hide from me behind an X-X- header!

I wasn't trying to hide.  Besides, there are holes in my socks, so you
didn't have to advertize them to the whole wide world...

> >Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14)
> >  by sourceware.org with SMTP; 6 Dec 2004 14:12:45 -0000
>
>   Heh, you didn't even bother to use an open proxy in Argentina or Korea.
> Amateur!

I could go through Russia, actually...

>   Damn, M$ Outlook is clueless[*].  If I hit "Reply all" to that post, I
> get a reply with just one address in the To: header, "Talk Amongst
> Yourselves".  But if I only hit the single "Reply" button, I get a reply
> with two addresses in it, "Talk Amongst Yourselves" and the "Blaaab
> Babble Boogle Bop" one as well.

So don't use Outlook... ];->

>   So Microsoft must reckon 1 > 2.
>
>   Maybe it's going to be part of their new advertising campaign:
>
>      Freedom is Slavery.
>       War is Peace.
>        Ignorance is strength.
>         Reply to author is Reply to all.
>
>    Bill Brother is watching you!
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
>
> [*] Ok, ok, I know that's stating the obvious: what I mean is "..even
> _more_ clueless than we already knew it to be..."

And you're still using it because ________________________ <- (fill in[*])
	Igor
[*] Quiz tomorrow. ];->
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