Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3B392A12.9C656CF7@etr-usa.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:34:26 -0600 From: Warren Young Organization: -ENOENT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Blunt Tools (was: cgf does not want private email about cygwin) References: <3B375E40.1000304@ece.gatech.edu> <20010625101924.C9771@redhat.com> <20010625111149.B1176@pinksheets.com> <3B375E40.1000304@ece.gatech.edu> <20010625133536.A1280@pinksheets.com> <4.3.1.2.20010625140310.0209d5c8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <20010625154753.A804@pinksheets.com> <20010625170532.A13721@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christopher Faylor wrote: > > I'll agree with Larry, though, that I find messages which have actual > information in them like "I searched the FAQ" to be refreshing. It cuts > down on the "Check the FAQ" "I already checked the FAQ!!!" type of > interchanges. The FAQ should be complete enough that you can tell simply from reading the question wether they've read the FAQ or not. Exchanges like your hypothetical one only happen when the FAQ gives ambiguous or incomplete answers. -- = Warren -- Video articles: http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/video/ = = ICBM Address: 36.8274040 N, 108.0204086 W, alt. 1714m -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/