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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 19:37:35 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Followup on eliminating symlink ReadFile calls -- it's not necessary
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In-Reply-To: <9589-Thu15Feb2001231715+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk>; from starksb@ebi.ac.uk on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:17:14PM +0000

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:17:14PM +0000, David Starks-Browning wrote:
>On Thursday 15 Feb 01, Christopher Faylor writes:
>> >....  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.  
>> 
>> Been here long?  We have a FAQ maintainer.  (David, you are still there,
>> right?)
>
>I'm still alive, however, I have not been monitoring the main cygwin
>list since about mid-December.  I was away from mail for a month, and
>haven't since mustered the courage to tackle the backlog of about 10^6
>messages that must sit there by now.  That, and I thought I could get
>some other things under control first.  Those things have taken longer
>than I thought they would.
>
>I fully plan to get back on track, but it may take another week or so
>to catch up completely.  Of course, if someone else can do a better
>job, we can talk about that too.

I haven't seen any real FAQ emergencies for a while, so there is no
need to panic.  :-)

cgf

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