From: cjjohans AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi (Carl J R Johansson) Subject: Re: This mail list in a news group 19 Jan 1997 15:41:35 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: cjjohans AT vesuri DOT Helsinki DOT FI Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <32E13355.7678@netcom.com> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Jim Balter wrote: > Weiqi Gao wrote: > > > > dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de wrote: > > > > >Hi, you wrote: > > > > > >:This mailling is very nice but it start to be very busy > > >:did you thing about moving on a news group ? > > > > >I suggest waiting until out of beta, then the list could be left to > > >developers. You'll have to be very careful about the name or you'll > > >get a lot of inappropriate postings! Any ideas? > > > > Here's some ideas (realize that no other Windows compilers have their own > > news groups): > > gnu-win32 is not just a compiler. comp.os.msdos.djgpp is analogous. > I'm under the impression that there is some kind of voting procedure before newsgroups are created (except the alt hierarchy), they have to be submitted somewhere (news.groups?). I suppose people who don't read this mailing list can vote too? The other solution would maybe be to have them only on a local server (that would at least guarantee that everyone can access them) but of course who would pay for that? cj - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".