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From: | "hongxun lee" <lee DOT 1801 AT osu DOT edu> |
To: | "cygwin mailing list" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
Subject: | Fw: Why not a news server? |
Date: | Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:34:40 -0500 |
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A great idea.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew DeFaria" <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com> To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:59 PM Subject: Why not a news server? > Why not simply set up a news server instead of this mail list. I find > the mail list deficient in several areas. First and foremost it's noisy > causing me to wade through all this email for topics I'm interested in. > Secondly there's no easy or convenient way to response to individual > issues (I get a digest of cygwin stuff emailed to me). Seems to me that > nntp was designed specifically for such communications and a number of > companies have set up news servers for such things. > > Finally a number of times I receive a digest speaking of topics and > articles but the email message is apparently truncated and the bodies of > these articles are missing. > > Comments? (I'm sure there will be some). > > > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/
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