spotting cygwin ml trends

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul 13 13:04, mwoehlke wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >It seems like this type of email is on the rise:
> >
> >"<some program in the cygwin distribution> is <describe strange behavior>
> >since I last updated Cygwin."
> >
> ><send several messages expressing confusion and consternation>
> >
> >"Oh, I found the problem.  I had previously done <describe unusual and
> >hard-to-forget thing>.  When I reverted that, things started working
> >fine."
> >
> >I wonder if that's a sign of anything.  It might mean that there is an
> >increase in people/organizations using cygwin and they are including
> >stupid instructions to work around real or imagined problems.
> 
> There is *NEVER* a shortage of stupid people doing stupid things. :-)

Wait, doesn't that mean stupidity is the perfect perpetuum mobile?  Wow,
finally endless energy for everybody!  Unfortunately the engineers are
too stupid to get it working...


Corinna