From: root AT jacob DOT remcomp DOT fr (root) Subject: No news group PLEASE 21 Jan 1997 14:18:55 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Content-Type: text Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Content-Length: 1636 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Content-Length: 1561 Daan Hoogland (dhoogl AT mccomm DOT nl) writes: > > I agree, > > I can get no news at work, but i can get mail at no charge. > So this i prefer. > > ---------- > > From: Tony FITZPATRICK > > To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > > Subject: Mailing List or News group? > > Date: Monday, January 20, 1997 11:08 PM > > > > Hi everyone > > > > Just to add my two cents to all this > > I much prefer the Mailing List to any News Group. I know that different > > countries have different ways of charging for access but it costs me > > (France) much less to recover my mail then it does to extract the useful > > stuff from a News Group. Frankly I see more inconvenience for everybody > in > > a News Group then I can in the current Mailing List structure. > > Mazzel, > I would like to add me to this growing list. I do not read any 'news' anymore since at least a year. Having to wade through megabytes of trivia to find a tiny bit of information/interesting stuff is too much of a time waste. We could reduce the volume if we split this list into several lists, most notably a 'bash' list where would go all the discussion about bash problems, a 'compiler' list, where would go all the compiler/linker/gdb discussion items, and a 'general' list, where we could discuss about the universe in general and gnu/cygnus in particular... -- Jacob Navia Logiciels/Informatique 41 rue Maurice Ravel Tel 01 48.23.51.44 93430 Villetaneuse Fax 01 48.23.95.39 France -- Jacob Navia Logiciels/Informatique 41 rue Maurice Ravel Tel 01 48.23.51.44 93430 Villetaneuse Fax 01 48.23.95.39 France - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".