Message-Id: <200302190732.h1J7WOb06155@delorie.com> 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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: An apology... From: news AT garydjones DOT mailshell DOT com References: User-Agent: Xnews/4.11.09 X-No-Archive: yes To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Gate: Hamster/1.3.23.185 NewsToMail-Gate Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:01:19 +0100 On 18 Feb 2003, "Stephen Ford" wrote: > Just out of curiosity, why is a mailing list used when it > seems far simpler for users to connect to a newsgroup? Okay, maybe if I tell you what my setup is you could try that and see if it is any easier for you. What I have is Hamster, which is a small mail & news server that I use that to pull Cygwin list posts from the gmane news server (as others have mentioned), but it would work as well if I got everything by mail because I could have Hamster send those emails to a private newsgroup. When I then post to Hamster's newsgroup it will then automatically send the post via email to the mailing list instead. Once the initial fiddling was done with this is, for me, by far the easiest way to do things, and if my Cygwin instalation is ever hosed I can still send an email here pleading for help in the same way as I normally would. What's more I do not need an account to post via the gmane server (because I never do), so that's one more thing I never need to worry about. BTW, I agree about the search facility on the mailing lists, you are better off using google IMO, restricting the search to the cygwin.com domain. -- 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/