spotting cygwin ml trends

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 01:04:48PM -0500, 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. :-)

Right.  I'm theorizing that cygwin's popularity is widening and we're coming
in contact with more of them.

cgf