From: cjjohans@cc.helsinki.fi (Carl J R Johansson) Subject: Re: The mail list in a news group 21 Jan 1997 17:06:16 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: cjjohans@vesuri.Helsinki.FI Original-To: kunglao@prairienet.org Original-cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <199701211600.KAA15422@cube.ice.net> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Tue, 21 Jan 1997 kunglao@prairienet.org wrote: > > I like the idea of first trying this as a series of newsgroups on a > small server, perhaps at cygnus.com, before joining it to the comp.* > hierarchy. Then we can experiment with splitting it into different > newsgroups to best sort the posts. > > This will keep the readers/posters to basically whoever's on this > mail list, and we wouldn't have the general "How about making Linux > for Win95?" type posts :). > The ideal solution would maybe be to automatically forward the messages to a local (again, as opposed to global) newsgroup and vice versa while maintaining the mailing list. That should keep everyone happy, but I don't know if it's practical. I myself probably don't have a say in this though as I will stick to the announce list soon (I don't have any Unix programs to port so 90% of the traffic is irrelevant). But for those who say 'the stated objective' would be to provide a Unix environment I suggest rereading the Web page, it says that it's a Win32 compiler even before it being a Unix environment. And for those who say 'why not use VC++' I could as well ask 'why not use NutCracker/OpenNT/[put your commercial environment here]' (personally I simply dislike it). Not that I disagree with it being a Unix environment primarily now that there is mingw32, but it remains attached to the main project at least for now. cj - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".