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Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 11:25:00 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz@cris.com>
Subject: Re: The Cygwin mailing lists are rather archaic and cumbersome
  aren't they...?
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Stephen,

Gmane has a Cygwin list mirroring group. The consensus among the users 
and especially the doers is that a mailing list suits Cygwin best.

This is an old and recurring topic. Please review the copious postings 
that have gone before. If you have something genuinely new to 
contribute, then let us know about it.

As far as Cygwin "support" goes, it's primarily supplies by the user 
community, with authoritative input from the principals and package 
maintainers, who monitor this list closely.

Randall Schulz


At 11:16 2003-02-07, Stephen Ford wrote:
>I was rather surprised at the cumbersome nature of the Cygwin mailing lists.
>There are difficult to manage, and the fact that all mails appear in your
>mailbox, whether related to a post or not is, not what I would have
>expected. The Cygwin environment is very comprehensive, but something as
>simple as a poor support system (and compared with all the others I use,
>this is poor) can restrict interest.
>
>Sorry to be critical, but I was taken a-back. Is it going to be improved by
>using a newsgroup for example?
>
>Regards
>Stephen Ford


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