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Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 19:46:05 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi AT gnus DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Why not a news server?
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> writes:
> 
> 
>>Supposedly, Lars set this nntp thing up as a service to the cygwin
>>community.
>>
> 
> Er, no.
> 
> Read <URL: http://gmane.org/>.


Okay, so gmane is a more comprehensive effort than a specific project to 
support an nntp gateway for cygwin's mailing lists.  But *somebody* had 
to set up the mapping

cygwin AT cygwin DOT com       <--> gmane.os.cygwin
cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com <--> gmane.os.cygwin.xfree

gmane doesn't mirror EVERY mailing list out there.  The person who set 
up the mapping, whoever it was, did so for a reason.  Somebody else 
(you, Lars?) approved the request to do so.  Whatever -- I don't really 
care.  I dislike the news interface.  Somebody else out there likes it 
enough to do whatever was necessary to create the *cygwin* gateway using 
the gmane service.

That person, whoever it was, should have announced that they had done 
so, using the references provided.  *I* had nothing to do with it.  *I* 
don't even use it.  So *I* shouldn't implicitly take credit for it by 
announcing it.

Geez, I can't believe I'm still writing about something *I* don't care 
about...

--Chuck


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