X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_PGP_INLINE,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TVD_FROM_1 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4FB1588E.9020708@signal100.com> Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 20:10:06 +0100 From: Mark Rousell Reply-To: markr-cygwin@signal100.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com CC: Daniel Colascione Subject: Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support References: <20120514143614.GA29237@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20120514144119.GB29237@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <87obpqbr5n.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <4FB144ED.8040705@molconn.com> <20120514181207.GA9635@corel> <4FB14F59.6090002@dancol.org> In-Reply-To: <4FB14F59.6090002@dancol.org> OpenPGP: id=C9C5C162; url=pool.sks-keyservers.net X-TagToolbar-Keys: D20120514201006495 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 14/05/2012 19:30, Daniel Colascione wrote: > On 5/14/12 11:12 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: >> ==== Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:46PM -0400 LMH wrote: >>> As an aside, I've wondered for some time why this group is a mailing >>> list and not a vBulletin type forum. >> >> I second the motion. >> > > No. > > Mailing lists are infinitely easier to filter, archive, and read. I > have my choice of client. Email supports cryptographic authentication. [...] > No, please, let's stick with email. If you'd rather access the list > using a forum-style interface, consider gmane. (Note that you can > access an email list as a "forum", but not a "forum" as an email > list.) I wholeheartedly agree. Let's stick with email. > Really, the "forum" model is a humongous step backward from the state > of the art of the 1980s. Indeed. It needn't be like this, forums could be so much better, but they are not. - -- MarkR PGP public key: http://www.signal100.com/markr/pgp Key ID: C9C5C162 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+xWI4ACgkQJQGogsnFwWLWiwCgnj6LN6wsz9EEtpy+FW3esKTM 7TEAnjXXeCi18n+r9KdVVsyl5WCP1Qc9 =qoms -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple