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RE: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:21:46 -0600
- Subject: RE: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?
> At 10:34 2003-02-14, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Can anyone offer any explanation about this? Or maybe convince me that
> > > I'm wrong in noticing this trend? I suppose that it is possible that
> > > we are now hitting a newer stupider brand of user who just can't be
> > > bothered to read the cygwin web site and click on a link to download
> > > but I'm wondering if there is another explanation. Maybe there is
> > > a popular web page out there with wrong advice or something...
> > >
> > > cgf
> >
> >Well, guess what comes up first on a Google search for "cygwin install"?
> >See for yourself: <http://google.com/search?q=cygwin+install> (just in
> >case, the first match I get is
> ><http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/ORKiD/basic.htm>,
> >last updated on March 24, 2000). :-(
> >I don't know if there's anything that can be done about it, though...
> > Igor
>
>
> Wow. Classic Cygwin humor, number 1 on Google!
>
I think something's wildly wrong with the world when my handful of crusty old
pages end up as the #1 Cygwin hit on Google. ;-) I can assure everybody that
I've done nothing to try to make that the case.
> Did you notice the copyright holder for these pages?
>
Um... a... hehehe... well ya see... ;-)
> I still think APHC's joke show is funnier.
>
Uhhg... you are one sick man Mr. Schulz. ;-)
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Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer. Patriot.
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