Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <009e01c1fd74$6b8e3500$0101a8c0@albion> From: "Cliff Hones" To: , "Robert Collins" References: Subject: Re: PGP signatures for packages? Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 08:28:16 +0100 Organization: Aonix Europe Ltd. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Robert Collins wrote: > ... > Until that is done, conversation on this is moot. > ... 'moot' is one of those words which doesn't travel well. In UK English, it means "undecided" or "debatable", so a moot point is one which hasn't been settled, and is open to discussion. I believe in common US English it means "out of order" - ie closed to discussion (at least for the moment). What a wonderful language we use. What does it mean in Australian English, Robert? [Etymology - moot is an old word meaning meeting place, typically for an assembly or court.] I know this is partially OT, apart from settling Robert's meaning; I'm not trying to start a language debate! -- Cliff -- 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/