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 Message-ID: <3E52594C.8050406@rfk.com> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:03:24 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" Reply-To: lhall@rfk.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Ford CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: An apology... References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stephen Ford wrote: > I posted an item on 17/02/03 (The Cygwin mailing lists are rather archaic > and cumbersome aren't they...?), which looks as though it has been taken as > a criticism of people supporting this mailing list. It was not the intention > so I apologise for any offence given. The phrase "support systems" was only > a comment about the computer systems. > > The delay in posting this has been caused by the difficulties I've had with > configuring Outlook Express to manage the mailing list, and with the GMANE > site that I am using to translate between the OEx newsreader and the cygwin > mailing list. This is the fourth attempt at posting. > > Just out of curiosity, why is a mailing list used when it seems far simpler > for users to connect to a newsgroup? Ease is in the eye of the beholder. This has all been hashed out in the email archives more than once. I refer you to the archives if you're interested in hearing all sides of the previous discussions on this topic. One very important issue that came out of all that - not all Cygwin users have access to newsgroups. -- Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- 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/