Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E079@IIS000> From: Bernard Dautrevaux To: "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" Subject: RE: Moving to Usenet? Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 17:16:22 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id JAA01928 > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf@cygnus.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 4:56 PM > To: Cygwin list > Subject: Re: Moving to Usenet? > > > On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 04:23:36PM +0200, Jonas Jensen wrote: > >Wouldn't it be an idea to move this mailing list to Usenet, > rather than flooding > >everyone's e-mail address with 100+ mails every day? I think > it would give some > >advantages: > > > >* Less traffic on people's inboxes. > >* Possibility of posting binaries/large code samples. If > people don't want 'em, > >they don't have to download them. > >* Eaisier to keep an overview of threads, rather than all > mails arriving in a big > >mess. > > > >I'm sure you've considered this before, why did you decide > against this? > > sources.redhat.com does not have the software, the capacity, or the > manpower to operate a news server. > > However, if you think that this is a good idea, please do look into > setting up something like an alt.os.cygwin newsgroup. I'll certainly > subscribe to this newsgroup if my ISP carries it. > > Otherwise, you should probably look into using a more > sophisticated mail > reader which can handle threads. I use a combination of > procmail and mutt > to break up my email into folders and organize it by threads. > I believe that > there are ports of both programs available for cygwin. > Even if not perfect (some threads get splitted for whetever reason I don't understand ;-)), outlook is quite good for that. Using news has some disadvantages, one of these being that we use a proxy for mail/http/ftp access and don't want to overload it by installing a news server on it, so normal users can get e-mail but cannot subscribe to newsgroups :-) So I would not be happy with moving this list to a newsgroup. Regards, Bernard -------------------------------------------- Bernard Dautrevaux Microprocess Ingéniérie 97 bis, rue de Colombes 92400 COURBEVOIE FRANCE Tel: +33 (0) 1 47 68 80 80 Fax: +33 (0) 1 47 88 97 85 e-mail: dautrevaux@microprocess.com b.dautrevaux@usa.net -------------------------------------------- -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com