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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:49:16 -0700
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Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> 
> >  > The mailing list is not documentation.
> >
> >  Yes.  It is.  They are called "archives".
> 
> Random users have no idea what to search for in the mailing list
> archives to find out that specifying "-x" to mount will cause a
> performance improvement.  

As maintainer of two FAQs, may I humbly point out that this is grist for
a FAQ mill.  Someone needs to be monitoring the mailing list, looking
for questions that come up a lot and add them to the FAQ, even if only
as a link into the mailing list archives.  This solves the "mailing list
is not documentation" problem: the FAQ item puts a useful title on the
solution, like "How do I increase Cygwin performance?"

No, sorry, I am not volunteering.  :)  I don't want to maintain 3 FAQs.  
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