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 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Nick Duffek Subject: Patch to http://cygwin.com/lists.html Message-Id: <20020305032237.57CFB1BF24A@duffek.com> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:22:37 -0500 (EST) Hi, Here's a patch for a typo on http://cygwin.com/lists.html (nice writing, BTW), along with a couple of other possible edits. Nick --- lists.html.orig Mon Mar 4 22:08:28 2002 +++ lists.html Mon Mar 4 22:09:22 2002 @@ -129,13 +129,13 @@ Cygwin problem. If you can't figure out how to set up a command alias in bash, that's not a Cygwin question. These Cygwin questions are considered "on topic". The non-Cygwin questions are -considerd "off topic".

+considered "off topic".

Why do we make this distinction? For two reasons: 1) as mentioned, the email traffic is very high so, by keeping things "on topic" we -can cut down on some list traffic and 2) there are usually much better +can cut down on some list traffic, and 2) there are usually much better places on the intenet where you can get definitive answers for your -question. It doesn't make sense to ask non-experts to teach you about +off-topic question. It doesn't make sense to ask non-experts to teach you about C or bash.

Unfortunately, we can't tell you exactly where to go with your non-cygwin questions. Google is a wonderful resource -- 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/