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-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 14:19:47 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Stephen Ford cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: The Cygwin mailing lists are rather archaic and cumbersome aren't they...? In-Reply-To: <006c01c2cedd$6c2a4900$8d17fc3e@stephenf> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Stephen Ford wrote: > I was rather surprised at the cumbersome nature of the Cygwin mailing lists. > There are difficult to manage, and the fact that all mails appear in your > mailbox, whether related to a post or not is, not what I would have > expected. The Cygwin environment is very comprehensive, but something as > simple as a poor support system (and compared with all the others I use, > this is poor) can restrict interest. > > Sorry to be critical, but I was taken a-back. Is it going to be improved by > using a newsgroup for example? > > Regards > Stephen Ford You can use the web archives, see Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- 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/