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: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:32:50 +0100 From: raphael To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin) Message-ID: <20020930203250.GB1580@raphael.oninet.pt> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <200209301154.g8UBssX27530@mailgate5.cinetic.de> <20020930131716.GD23881@redhat.com> <20020930200239.GB3052@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="JP+T4n/bALQSJXh8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020930200239.GB3052@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 TOOS 1.3.12(0.54/3/2) 2002-07-06 02:16 i686 unknown --JP+T4n/bALQSJXh8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 04:02:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:54:56AM -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote: > >*** Michael A Chase (mchase@ix.netcom.com) wrote today: > > > >:) On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:48:42 -0700 (PDT) Eduardo Chappa > >:) wrote: > >:) > >:) > For these reasons, I completely support the idea of creating an > >:) > independent newsgroup. > >:) > >:) So file the proposal. > > > >Sure, I can do that, but what do the people at redhat think about that?. > >Do they oppose, don't mind, agree?. >=20 > I think it's a stupid idea. The idea of a bunch of ignorant people > asking each other how to do things that only marginally relate to cygwin > is certainly not a newsgroup that I want be anywhere near. However, my > opinion doesn't really matter. Go ahead, create a mailing list. I > won't be reading it. Maybe somebody clueful will join. >=20 > At least you won't have to deal with me saying that things are off-topic. > At least until the first time that someone cross-posts a "how does bash > work" message between the two lists. =20 If this list would have halve the atitude as you will find on the pine list, where Eduardo btw is doing great work, then this problem might not even exist. --=20 James Joyce -- an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. -- Tom Stoppard --JP+T4n/bALQSJXh8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (Cygwin32) iD8DBQE9mLTxWEtPuWPcngsRAoJeAJ45io6RvD2xJFghYQf8Hv0+FnUbpACeML0T OQ9SyoLBcjRc+IuOiE/tLLE= =3hRu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --JP+T4n/bALQSJXh8--