Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 17:42:57 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: list name - Was - Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions Message-ID: <20020707214257.GA26814@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20020706121858.A4468@ns.helixdigital.com> <20020707093130.A13176@ns.helixdigital.com> <20020707170757.GD1962@redhat.com> <20020707200154.GA19836@butch.jgcomp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020707200154.GA19836@butch.jgcomp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 04:01:54PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 01:07:57PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Someday, I'm sure that I'll understand why people insist on redirecting >>cygwin-apps discussions to cygwin. > >Maybe "cygwin" sounds sufficiently generic to appear to cover all >cygwin areas. If it were renamed cygwin-dll or cygwin-base or >somesuch, then a poster would not have a generic mailing list to select >and might consider the appropriate list. The mental gymnastics required to make assumptions like this would really be something. You're following a discussion that is moving along nicely in cygwin-apps and the brainstorm hits you that this would really be perfect for *cygwin*, so you redirect it there. I don't buy it. That's just rude. It's more likely that people don't know how to use their mail programs and end up moving the discussion here by mistake. Hey! I know! Let's talk about Reply-To now! That's the answer to all of our problems! cgf -- 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/