From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter) Subject: Re: This mail list in a news group 17 Jan 1997 22:25:43 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <32E05E66.7B5C.cygnus.gnu-win32@netcom.com> References: <009AE843.11E1BAE0.7459@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) Original-To: dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de Original-CC: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote: > > Hi, you wrote: > > : This mailling is very nice but it start to be very busy > : did you thing about moving on a news group ? > > I suggest waiting until out of beta, then the list could be left to > developers. You'll have to be very careful about the name or you'll > get a lot of inappropriate postings! Any ideas? What reason do you have to think that cygwin will ever get out of beta? It is not a GNU supported project, is not distributed by GNU, does not fall under the GNU mission, and there has been no sign that I know of that that will change. -- - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".