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From: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: Moving to Usenet?
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 17:16:22 +0200 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf AT cygnus DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 4:56 PM
> To: Cygwin list
> Subject: Re: Moving to Usenet?
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 04:23:36PM +0200, Jonas Jensen wrote:
> >Wouldn't it be an idea to move this mailing list to Usenet, 
> rather than flooding
> >everyone's e-mail address with 100+ mails every day? I think 
> it would give some
> >advantages:
> >
> >* Less traffic on people's inboxes.
> >* Possibility of posting binaries/large code samples. If 
> people don't want 'em,
> >they don't have to download them.
> >* Eaisier to keep an overview of threads, rather than all 
> mails arriving in a big
> >mess.
> >
> >I'm sure you've considered this before, why did you decide 
> against this?
> 
> sources.redhat.com does not have the software, the capacity, or the
> manpower to operate a news server.
> 
> However, if you think that this is a good idea, please do look into
> setting up something like an alt.os.cygwin newsgroup.  I'll certainly
> subscribe to this newsgroup if my ISP carries it.
> 
> Otherwise, you should probably look into using a more 
> sophisticated mail
> reader which can handle threads.  I use a combination of 
> procmail and mutt
> to break up my email into folders and organize it by threads. 
>  I believe that
> there are ports of both programs available for cygwin.
> 

Even if not perfect (some threads get splitted for whetever reason I don't
understand ;-)), outlook is quite good for that. 

Using news has some disadvantages, one of these being that we use a proxy
for mail/http/ftp access and don't want to overload it by installing a news
server on it, so normal users can get e-mail but cannot subscribe to
newsgroups :-)

So I would not be happy with moving this list to a newsgroup.

Regards,

	Bernard

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