RE: Spurious "You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your syste m."

["Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: 07 October 2004 16:20

> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 04:06:27PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> >Blimey, that seems a bit of an overreaction to a throwaway 
> comment that
> >wasn't the main point of what was in fact a constructive 
> post! Have you
> >not had enough caffeine yet this morning?
> 
> It isn't a throwaway comment if it is repeated, like Chinese water
> torture, by you or Igor every time I (or Corinna) respond to Luke
> Kendall.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%2Bkendall+%2BPCYMTNQREAIYR+site:cygwin.com&h
l=en&lr=&filter=0

Results 1 - 4 of 4 from cygwin.com for +kendall +PCYMTNQREAIYR

  <g>  Obviously, there must have been a surge in such cases in the past
fortnight or however long it's been since google last spidered the site.  Or
it's just that it's happened a couple of times particularly recently and
they're still fresh in your mind and you're feeling put-upon.  Whichever,
I'll try and remember not to mention it again.  It's not like I for one
second was suggesting you don't know how to operate a mailer or actually
need reminding about raw addresses.

> FWIW, however, just to show that the mailing list archives are being
> trolled and poor Luke is going to be spammed -- I just shut down a
> spammer who was sucking the email archives from 
> sourceware.org, driving
> the load average up up to 32.  Some spammers are so stupid that they
> don't realize that if they overtax a system, someone is going 
> to notice
> and shut them down.  This poor person may have just discovered that
> sourceware.org is completely inaccessible to them now.

<koff> What was their IP?  It's always nice to get one of the suckers at
their home address......

> I'm still contemplating what I'm going to do with my time 
> since I won't
> have to either type a response and then delete it or type a 
> response and
> then send it in a caffeine-deprived state.  

  Spend the time getting yourself fully caffeinated, that's my
recommmendation!

    cheers, 
      DaveK
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