From: weiqigao AT crl DOT com ("Weiqi Gao") Subject: Re: The mail list in a news group 22 Jan 1997 00:40:31 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199701220605.AA07997.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.crl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Carl J R Johansson wrote: >The ideal solution would maybe be to automatically forward the messages >to a local (again, as opposed to global) newsgroup and vice versa while >maintaining the mailing list. That should keep everyone happy, but I don't >know if it's practical. Mailing list gives the project no exposure on the internet. A mailing list is essentially a local newsgroup. A Web site gives the project some accidental exposure on the internet. A global news group gives the project the widest exposure to the most relevent people on the internet. A global news group takes nothing away from the mailing list. The only thing it will do is to attract more people to the project. From the mailings I've seen in the last two days, there's some concern of noise/signal ratio if a global news group is created. That's understandable. But the increased awareness of the project in the internet population at large far out weighs any such concern, IMHO. >[......] >environment here]' (personally I simply dislike it). Not that I disagree >with it being a Unix environment primarily now that there is mingw32, >but it remains attached to the main project at least for now. What is mingw32? I hope I don't have to get onto yet another mailing list to learn all about it. -- Weiqi Gao weiqigao AT crl DOT com - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".