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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew Schulman Subject: Re: A request for package announcers Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:12:21 -0500 Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <20041108224315.31B9684C39@pessard.research.canon.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pcp04398386pcs.nrockv01.md.comcast.net User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067 X-IsSubscribed: yes > Would it be possible to include a description of what the package > actually is, in the email announcement? Even if it's very short. > > Often you can't tell from the package name alone. Yes, this is reasonable. Someone else asked for the same thing in this NG within the last week. Maybe the cygwin-announce moderator should set and enforce this policy. -- To reply by email, replace "deadspam.com" by "alumni.utexas.net" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/