From: ade@greennet.net (Andrew Evans) Subject: Re: Patch spamming 4 Jun 1997 13:01:16 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <19970604132533770.AAB97.cygnus.gnu-win32@balingwire> References: <199706032233.PAA00947@rottweiler.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Comments: Authenticated sender is Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-reply-to: <199706040540.BAA10292@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com > On 3 Jun 97 at 15:33, Tim Iverson wrote: > > But, please don't subject all of us to 100KB of "patch of the day". J. David Bryan wrote: > I agree. I think that supplying links to where we can retrieve the patches > would be more appropriate than supplying the patches themselves. Just to offer another viewpoint, I don't mind that people are posting patches to the list. It's much more convenient for me to get the patches this way -- if I had to ftp them all, I'm sure I'd miss some of them. I have a normal 33.6kbps dialup connection to my ISP, yet I still only spend a few minutes a day downloading e-mail. As long as people remain judicious about keeping the size of postings reasonable, I don't see a problem. BTW, I've been on the list for close to a year now, and this is the first time I've seen someone complain about this. I tend to think that most people don't mind. Andrew Evans - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".