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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb@ukf.net>
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Subject: Re: Is it possible to get a read-only subscription to cygwin-developers, to listen and learn?
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:59:01 +0100
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb@ukf.net]
>>>> ...
>>>> Would you consider the creation of a
>>>> 'cygwin-developers-readonly@' list? I
>>>> imagine that it would be possible to create it as an
>>>> announcement list, and then
>>>> subscribe the post address for the new list to cygwin-developers@ ?
>
> It's more of a question of whether there is a mechanism to do this
> with ezmlm.  AFAIK, there isn't.

Wouldn't what I outlined above work? Nevermind, though. I see what you mean
below about cross-post mayhem, so I'll just content myself with the archives.

Max.

> I also have to admit that I am not really wild about the idea of
> adding lurkers to the cygwin-developers mailing list.  We've already
> seen much confusion where people are cc'ing cygwin-apps instead of
> cygwin and vice versa.  We occasionally even see this with current
> cygwin-developers subscribers.  Making cygwin-developers available to
> non-subscribers, even via a read-only mechanism, will certainly open
> the door to more annoying cross-mailing-list traffic.  I think there
> is nearly a 100% certainty of this.
>
> So, the web is the best mechanism for reading what's going on in
> cygwin-developers.  Sorry.
>
> cgf


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