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RE: Removing the hippo
> From: dave.korn@artimi.com
> To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Removing the hippo
> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:26:54 +0100
>
> Danilo Turina wrote on 06 October 2008 08:16:
>
>> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>>> Nick Rogness wrote a message with the subject "Removing the hippo":
>>>
>>> ...am I the only one that took one look at the subject and thought
>>> "wrong list"? ;-)
>>>
>>
>> You are not alone...
>
>
> Actually, I thought "Wrong subject line" - it should have been "Unleashing
> the hippo", not "Removing" it.
>
> Well, that's the email that I was hoping to read, anyway :)
Unfortunately, there are probably many people who can't appreciate the
difference between a few lines of text and an animated Flash ad that
somehow manages to use up an entire Pentium to animate snow flakes
or zoom in on a product of no interest to me.
Does the hippo try to download an OCX or put viruses on my machine?
BTW, the cygwin documentation is very light on OCX support.
>
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
> --
> Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
>
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