Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020205183407.02105f28@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 18:40:21 -0500 To: Andrew DeFaria , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Why not a news server? In-Reply-To: <3C606B11.7060306@DeFaria.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 06:30 PM 2/5/2002, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Because I do not feel like having to pour though a ton of messages wasting space on my systems to weed out the junk and have to manage cleaning up all the stuff I'm not interested it. News servers were created exactly to address this issue. It is the medium developed exactly for what we are trying to do here. Am I so wrong to ask why we are not using the medium?!?. No. However, if you're looking for the answer to the question, you're going to have to review this thread (and others like it). I appreciate your need to organize your messages in a way that's convenient for you but I'm not going to repeat what's already been said on this issue in this thread and others like it. Hopefully everyone is now clear as to why there is not already a news server for Cygwin. If you are not and are curious, please review the list archives to find the answer. It's time this thread died until someone is ready to do more than talk about the need or benefits of a news server. When that point is reached, I'm sure we'll all appreciate the single email message to this list that it takes to announce the existence of the new service. Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/