Some people can be utterly useless

So, I am having a great deal of trouble with EA Games right now. I may have another post that deals with that but first I am going to express my utter amazement at the level of help that I managed to get out of an open source developer. I was trying to run Wine on windows (don't ask) and I could not manage to configure it so I sent the following e-mail to the maintainer of the distribution:

<snip>
I've been through the wiki on WineHQ as well as every page I could
google, and I couldn't find out how to configure the windows version
of wine. I downloaded the windows binaries and I would like to run an
application using wine, and have wine report the version of windows as
Windows XP. (I am running Windows 2000).

I've been scouring the internet for the last two hours but everything
I find about configuring wine says to run winecfg which is not in the
windows binaries that I downloaded.

Is this functionality not yet supported? Or have I just not looked in
the right places for help.

Thank you,
Jason
</snip>

I got the following reply:

<snip>
You can't please check out
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=402065&group_id=6241

Ivan.
</snip>

Ignoring the obvious problems with English contained in that e-mail, that happens to be just where I downloaded the binaries from. And the contents of the page at the time of this writing are as follows:

Release Name: 0.9.10

Notes:
These packages contains wine dlls and binaries built for Win32.
The files with mingw in the name are built with mingw debug symbols.
The other packages are stripped.
These packages are intended for developers only, if you're a user,
you don't need them.

Wasn't that wonderful? Thank you so much Ivan for your skillful resolution to my problem.

(Sigh)