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RE: A cygwin newsgroup?
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'fluffy is teh owner of usenut'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:44:46 -0000
- Subject: RE: A cygwin newsgroup?
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On 14 November 2006 19:30, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:09:58PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 14 November 2006 14:55, George wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 07:03:39AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> Maybe I knew that there was a cygwin newsgroup at some point in the
>>>> distant past but its existence came as a surprise to me this morning
>>>> nonetheless.
>>>>
>>>> It seems rather rude that this would be created without discussion in
>>>> the official cygwin forum but I guess that's par for the course. Few
>>>> people who use cygwin seem to have a clue.
>>
>> I don't think anyone needs to check in here for permission to discuss
>> cygwin in a forum of their own devising. Consider it a fork!
>
> Nobody has to do anything. You can do anything you want within the laws
> of physics up until some policeman takes notice and stops you.
I once got arrested for breaking Newton's first law of motion.
> That doesn't mean that it isn't rude.
>
> Normally when this kind of thing happens there is a call for discussion.
> If that happened in this case, I'd have to wonder where the discussion
> occurred.
You've got something there, it appears to be an unofficial group that's
sneaked into the big8 somehow. There's no sign of it anywhere on ftp.isc.org.
cheers,
DaveK
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