From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22399 invoked by alias); 6 Feb 2002 01:35:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 22335 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2002 01:35:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com) (12.107.208.154) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Feb 2002 01:35:46 -0000 Received: from cgf.cipe.redhat.com (dhcpd153.meridian.redhat.com [172.16.47.153]) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g161ZkI08410 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:35:46 -0500 Received: (from cgf@localhost) by cgf.cipe.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.8.7) id g161a9p13043 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:36:09 -0500 Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 17:35:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Why not a news server? Message-ID: <20020206013609.GC12007@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3C606B11.7060306@DeFaria.com> <20020206000517.GA12007@redhat.com> <002d01c1aea6$51a8b6a0$0700a8c0@vergenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002d01c1aea6$51a8b6a0$0700a8c0@vergenet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00209.txt.bz2 On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 06:36:23PM -0600, James Potts (Arek) wrote: >>I'd suggest that you gateway the cygwin mailing list into news, and >>vice versa. That would probably be optimum. > >Great idea, but it has to be done right - you can't just forward a raw >news message to the mailing list. Some news/e-mail clients (Outlook >Express, for example) will try to open it as a news message, which >messes things up. I assume that anyone who does this will use one of the programs available for handling this type of thing. cgf -- 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/