From: dbryan AT mail DOT bcpl DOT lib DOT md DOT us ("J. David Bryan") Subject: Re: Patch spamming 5 Jun 1997 02:02:56 -0700 Sender: mail AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199706042256.SAA29019.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us> References: <199706040540 DOT BAA10292 AT mail DOT bcpl DOT lib DOT md DOT us> Comments: Authenticated sender is Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT In-reply-to: <19970604132533770.AAB97@balingwire> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On 4 Jun 97 at 9:26, Andrew Evans wrote: > I have a normal 33.6kbps dialup connection to my ISP, yet I still only > spend a few minutes a day downloading e-mail. As long as people remain > judicious about keeping the size of postings reasonable, I don't see a > problem. I see two considerations. One is the purpose of the list. From the "Welcome to the gnu-win32 mailing list!" document that is sent when we subscribe: This list is a place to discuss the gnu-win32 tools and the Cygwin32 API. Announcements pertaining to the project are also sent to the list. No mention of binaries or patches is made (unless we consider a patch to be "discussion"). If Cygnus decides that patches are appropriate discussion, then I would yield this issue. The other consideration is Internet bandwidth. Those patches are being replicated hundreds (thousands?) of times for each subscriber. If 80% of the recipients are using each patch, then I would concede that posting them here is a valid use of resources. If only 20% are, then a better use of the bandwidth would be to post a link. So far, I have deleted each patch I have received, but then I'm not an intensive user of the GNU-Win32 toolset. Another possibility would be to have a "gnu-win32-patch" mailing list, where those desiring to receive all patches could subscribe. Discussions, as provided for in the "charter" of the gnu-win32 list, would remain here. -- Dave Bryan dbryan AT mail DOT bcpl DOT lib DOT md DOT us - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".