From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28927 invoked by alias); 5 Aug 2009 10:34:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 28912 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Aug 2009 10:34:30 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ew0-f217.google.com (HELO mail-ew0-f217.google.com) (209.85.219.217) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:34:21 +0000 Received: by ewy17 with SMTP id 17so4049418ewy.2 for ; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:34:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.211.195.15 with SMTP id x15mr8045175ebp.9.1249468458072; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:34:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.99? (cpc2-cmbg8-0-0-cust61.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [82.6.108.62]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm1888047eyf.28.2009.08.05.03.34.17 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:34:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A796347.4050604@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:34:00 -0000 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Vulgar and Unprofessorial Cygwin-Talk Maiming Lits Subject: Re: Cygwin users forum References: <1249429056.3372.22.camel@Debbie.feline> In-Reply-To: <1249429056.3372.22.camel@Debbie.feline> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-q3/txt/msg00046.txt.bz2 Norv wrote: > Either way, this is mostly an interest check, for both more and less > experienced cygwin users. Would you like to have a forum at hand? Speaking only for myself, the answer has to be "Thanks but no thanks". We already have a bunch of mailing lists that I feel serve all my needs entirely adequately, and I don't want to have to add keeping up with of a whole bunch of web forums on top of that; it would be extra effort for no practical purpose. > I would greatly appreciate your feedback on anything concerning this. I think you're almost certainly wasting your time and effort in providing what is really only a redundant duplicate of what already exists(*). I wish you luck, and after all this is all free software and anyone can set up any discussion group or website about it that they want, but I'm not optimistic that you should expect much to come of it. (It does make me wonder if there might not be some degree of latent demand that would be satisfied by setting up a wiki on cygwin.com, but since I'm not about to volunteer the time to maintain it, I don't really think I have much right to an opinion on the matter.....) cheers, DaveK -- (*) - To me, the difference between a web forum and a mailing list is negligible since you tend to have gateways in both directions and places like gmane and nabble blurring what distinction there once was.