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-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Danilo Turina Subject: Re: An apology... Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:55:58 +0100 Lines: 48 Message-ID: <3E53388E.5030608@alcatel.it> References: <00e601c2d768$0eddc220$e5ea86d9 AT webdev> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: it, en-us, en In-Reply-To: I read this whole thread, but, sorry, I can't yet understand what are your problems with gmane. I had subscription to 2 high-traffic ML (clearcase and cygwin), my inbox was always full, in addition, I had some problem with my mail clients (due to our internal stanrdards) that prevented me to use filters effectively. When I discovered gmane I jumped from my chair! It is wonderful!!! Now I simply use the Mozilla newsreader to access 5 (five!) cygwin mailing list without being bothered with mails in my inbox. Till now I found no differences between cygwin mls through gmane and real newsgroups: I download the headers, if there some post that interests me I read it, otherwise I mark them read. If I want I could use the offline feature of Mozilla to keep all the messages locally on my machine. If you can succesfully access (and use) real newsgroups I can't see why you cannot access (and use) Cyvwin's mls through gmane. Stephen Ford wrote: > <<..I use one filter for each cygwin ml that I'm subscribed to and have no > >>problems with "manage"ing the flow..>> > > > But that's horrendous - the whole internet will be peppered with even more > unnecessary emails. I was horrified when my newreader suddenly filled up > with every message from the mailing list. When I saw what was happening, I > though that well-known phrase, "You can't be serious..." > > <<..Not everyone here uses a sparkly gui app (oex) so not everyone will have > >>access to a news-reader..>> > > > But if you've got win95 or Win98 you've got OEx. It's so easy. What you're > telling me is there are people out there with electric windows and they > won't use them because someone said it's sissy and it's better to stick your > head out of the sun roof. They can still drive, but it just makes life very > difficult. > > Stephen > -- 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/