From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Morris To: cygwin users Subject: RE: Cygnus Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <199902151550.KAA03478@brocade.nexen.com> References: <19990215153239.13597.rocketmail@send106.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-02n/msg00463.html Message-ID: <19990228230200.Z8SURklORLhnFSlMNDmdtr8ePFmWfueo3eP32RnLMP4@z> Earnie Boyd writes: > > It seems to me that most of these types of questions; ones that have > been answered before and can be researched from the archives, or are > on the FAQ; are from people who are not on the mailing list. Because > of the number of questions that Mumit and others answer over and over > again I would like to pose an off topic question. > > Should this list become closed to members only? > > IMHO, this would give the would be questioner rules up front. The > resource pointer FAQ that gets posted by Michael Weiser > could be included in the instructions > that get mailed to new members. This should cut down on the number of > unresearched questions. While I sympathize with the problem I post from many mail addresses; seldom from the one I joined the list with. I joined with my personal mail address (where I archive etc with procmail and don't worry about changing jobs.) and almost always post from a work account or my wives account. Does the list server support aliases? That might solve my problem. I also find the archive search engine unreliable. Maybe I am unlucky but of the last three times I tried to do a search the search engine was down for two of them, and for days. It was down this weekend. Maybe we should turn the list into a newsgroup ;->. Steve Morris sjm@judgement.com