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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:08:48 +0200
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From: Thomas Mellman <tmellman AT web DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)
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>>    The Cygwin list seems to do fine, though a beginners list would be nice.

> I would definitely appreciate a beginner's list, one where we could ask questions like "Hey, I'm not even sure if > this is a Cygwin question or a <specific
> application> question but could anyone help..."



This *is* the beginners list.  The experts list is cygwin-developers.

I'm afraid that the call for a "beginners-list" springs from a desire to get rid
of all the "stupid questions", which is generally defined as
"everybody-else's question but mine".

If we define a still-more-beginner's list, it will be a write-only list.



> The amount of traffic on this list is *very* (see? not shouting) overwhelming, and I for one am a complete Unix > newbie trying to makes sense of a *lot* of
> new information.


Try
    http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/     (or http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-10)
It works great for me.

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