From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27882 invoked by alias); 4 Nov 2003 18:58:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 27875 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2003 18:58:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO redhat.com) (66.187.233.200) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Nov 2003 18:58:03 -0000 Received: by redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 201) id 39D1132A8A8; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:58:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 18:58:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: New package: gv-3.5.8-1 Message-ID: <20031104185802.GA16094@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com References: <87ad7cqeym.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com> <20031104162918.GD1922@fairlite.demon.co.uk> <3FA7F151.5040502@msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FA7F151.5040502@msu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00039.txt.bz2 List-Id: On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:34:57PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >Hmm... > >Well, we never really defined what the policy was regarding >announcements. I have been cross-posting them for years now :) > >I'm the one that told Volker to do the cross-post, it is my fault. He >was just doing what I asked him to do. > >I also was not able to get the list of subscribers for both lists until >recently. One list has about 340 people while the other has about 370. > It seems that there is a lot of overlap, so it would probably be okay >to stop posting announcements at cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com. > >Heck, I didn't even realize that so many people were signed up for >cygwin-xfree-announce. I thought it was being ignored. Guess I should >have checked those lists earlier. > >I guess that is it then. The policy is changed. I won't cross-post >announcements anymore. > >Thanks for making me think this through :) FWIW, cygwin-announce email shows up on cygwin thanks to a repeater running on my system. I did this because people on the cygwin list complained that they weren't seeing announcements and didn't want to have to subscribe to two mailing lists. Just a different point of view, I guess. cgf