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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:29:40 -0500
From: Paul McFerrin <pmcferrin@columbus.rr.com>
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Folks:
In the past several years, I have both subscribed and unsubscribed to 
"cygwin@cygwin.com" mailing list without any problems.  For this last 
cycle, the incoming mail from cygwin users after an unsubscribed action 
has been greatly reduced.  However today, I have received 27 mail 
messages from cygwin@cygwin.  Why/how is this happening?

If anyone knows what I should do next please email me.  I've been 
unsubscribed since this past April.

-Paul McFerrin

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Yesterday, Yaakov released a new version of X for Cygwin, rectifying a
> long-standing problem in the Cygwin distribution.
>
> He was amazingly diligent in making sure that his upgrade did not break
> the Cygwin distribution.  His new packages are laid out in a more
> sensical fashion and attempt to rigorously provide a seamless upgrade
> experience.  It was impressive to see how hard he worked to make things
> work.
>
> In addition to that, I know that he knows full well that there will be
> lots of email from lots of users who used the old versions and now are
> confused by the modern installation.  There will undoubtedly be bugs and
> there will undoubtedly be repeated reporting of the bugs to the cygwin
> lists.  I know that he will be noting all of the problems and rectifying
> them where he can.  I've seen him do this with the already impressive
> list of packages that he maintains and I'm confident that he will bring
> this level of committment to the new Xorg release.
>
> I really want to commend Yaakov for what he has done here.  It is a
> relief to have the X packaging sorted out and to have active maintainers
> in the cygwin-xfree mailing list.  We've been without active participation
> in this project for many years.
>
> (Although if history replays itself Yaakov will soon get a job offer from
> a X-on-Windows company)
>
> Yaakov deserves 10 gold stars for what he has done here but I don't
> think that's enough to thank him for his work.  If you agree with me you
> might consider going to http://cygwin.com/donations.html and donating
> something to Yaakov in appreciation of all of his hard work both with
> Cygwin/X and for the cygwinports project*.  I did that last week in
> anticipation of Xorg release.  I hope you will consider doing something
> similar.
>
> cgf
>
> *http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/
>
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