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RE: typical cygwin bug communications (long)
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: "'teh socks support me in teh email!'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:56:19 -0000
- Subject: RE: typical cygwin bug communications (long)
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: 06 December 2004 16:17
> 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
> > > 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... ];->
False inference! Where does it say I _mind_ if that happens? I just think
it's clueless. Most cats and dogs are clueless, but that's no reason not to
keep pets.....
> > 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 ________________________ <-
What else would give me so many laughs _and_ opportunities to fling opprobrium
at Microsoft?
cheers,
DaveK
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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....