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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 14:31:57 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Bobby McNulty <bobbymcn2001 AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Mailing list etiquette [Was: Re: SETUP WIZARD FOR CYGWIN?XFREE86]
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Bobby:
1) Why was your message quoted below part of the "SETUP WIZARD FOR 
CYGWIN?XFREE86" thread? What does it have to do with anything that had 
been discussed in that thread previously? If you wanted to post this 
message to the list, it should have been a NEW message with a NEW 
subject heading.  I note that this is a common practice for you, Bobby 
-- you often reply to an ongoing thread with a new topic.  *Don't do 
that*.  New topic == New subject line, new thread.

If you really want to tie it to the previous thread, you can use the 
Was: modifier like I did in this message.

#2) Why was your message directed to egor? ("egor, I'm final...") Is it 
part of an ongoing private conversation you've been having with him?  If 
so, then it should have been a private email.  If not, is there some 
context that makes a mingw port of CSound particularly interesting to 
egor, yet requires that the message be public?

For instance, I addressed this email to you, Bobby, because the context 
is: I am commenting directly on the content of YOUR earlier message.  I 
don't see how your message (again, as quoted below) directly relates to 
egor's prior posting; therefore it shouldn't have been addressed to him 
AFAICT.  Furthermore, I posted this message to the public list, rather 
than sending privately, because I feel that a public discussion of 
mailing list etiquette as expected on cygwin@ may be useful.

#3) I kind of doubt that your message, as quoted below, was of interest 
to the list, since the message concerns a port of CSound to Win32, using 
the mingw compiler -- not cygwin.

Perhaps you should have announced your Csound port on the mingw mailing 
list?

--Chuck

Bobby McNulty wrote:

> egor, I'm finallizing my poert of Csound using the gcc compiler and mingw
> and w32api. I'll post the program on my webpage some day soon. What will be
> available are sources to study and build from and the binararies to test the
> program.
> Csound is a sound processing utility originally made in 1986 at MIT. It can
> be used to create sound, filter recorded sound, sound effects, MIDI
> programming, etc. My port uses the Pentium Classic. But that will change
> when i upgrade.
> I have used parts of the Mingw and W32api. I undeffed IN and OUT because the
> program uses its own version, __cdecl because I got tired of if defing each
> time, and frm1.



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