From: weiqigao@crl.com ("Weiqi Gao") Subject: Re: This mail list in a news group 18 Jan 1997 23:27:12 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199701182206.AA10406.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.crl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "Anders Lindgren" Original-Cc: X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Anders Lindgren wrote: >>comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.gnu-win32 >>comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32.gnu-win32 >To me, it sounds as though these news groups covers a much broader >area then intended, namely all projects involving writing and porting >GNU software to win32. >My suggestion is: > comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32.cygwin > .tools.cygwin > or ...cygwin32 Someone need to read the charter of the comp.os.ms-windows.* hierarchy. Specifically the scope of their "tools" and "win32" branches. The currently available news groups in the comp.os.mw-windows.programmer.* hierarchy seems to revolve around the subsystems of Windows (drivers, controls, networks, graphics, memory, multimedia, ole, vxd, winhelp, win32). Then there is the tools branch, which hosts mfc, olw, and winsock. This is apparently an ancient organization. The cygwin project really doesn't fit in. The proper place is probably comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.posix.cygwin -- Weiqi Gao weiqigao@crl.com - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".