cygwin, and comment on rejection

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Thu Dec 16 17:05:00 GMT 2004


On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:36:37AM -0700, Sarir Khamsi wrote:
>Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com> writes:
>>Good point.  I do reject some subjects like that in the main cygwin
>>list but I hadn't done so here.
>>
>>I have now, though.  However, if people think that's too harsh, I'll
>>remove that restriction.
>
>A person's inability to articulate their problem should not deprive
>them of help.  Yes, I feel this is too harsh.

I thought I'd get that response but it sort of misses the point, IMO.
This doesn't stop people cold.  It just prevents their first attempt
sending email to the mailing list from being a clueless one.  This is
exactly what the suggestions at http://cygwin.com/problems.html were
intended to stop.

cgf



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