Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020420142536.02a60df0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 14:26:29 -0400 To: Joshua Daniel Franklin , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING... In-Reply-To: <20020420174252.32987.qmail@web20007.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:42 PM 4/20/2002, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > BTW, did it occur to anyone that the rapid and multiple responses to > > this email -- which, given its tone and lack of specific content > > qualifies as a troll by any objective measure -- serve to ENCOURAGE this > > sort of insistent, badgering, and rude behavior? > > > > I mean, geez -- it worked, didn't it? The guy IS getting his answers -- > > and very rapidly... In behavioral science, we call this "positive > > reinforcement of aberrent behavior". > >Yeah, what ever happened to "because we're mean"? LOL! You know, that classic line came to my mind immediately on reading the original post! ;-) Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- 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/