From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6189 invoked by alias); 15 May 2002 12:50:16 -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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 6151 invoked from network); 15 May 2002 12:50:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com) (66.187.233.200) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 May 2002 12:50:13 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (vpn50-7.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.7]) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g4FCoCu27722 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 08:50:12 -0400 Received: by redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 201) id 948C91B854; Wed, 15 May 2002 08:50:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 06:31:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Default mounts : one redundant? Message-ID: <20020515125008.GF11699@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <000701c1fbe8$ae492c20$6fc82486@medschool.dundee.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000701c1fbe8$ae492c20$6fc82486@medschool.dundee.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00910.txt.bz2 On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:15:31AM +0100, fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote: >>> "You know better than to send this inquiry to the Cygwin list ..." > >>> "This is off-topic, it belongs on cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com ..." > >On or about 19th April all the XFree86 stuff became available at the Cygwin >mirrors and for the first time required no special download or installation >procedures. A new user (or even several old users: 3 so far, by my >reckoning) might be forgiven for deducing that associated queries could >thereafter be reasonably directed to this list cygwin@cygwin.com. Hooray for >ease. > >However: apparently not (even for questions like this one which is a >perplexing one about architecture, not practice. Speaking just for myself, >it really isn't always easy for those posing queries to determine where that >query should reside). But anyway, please could we have a ruling: despite the >consistency of its download and installation and the seamless manner in >which it has become part of the standard provision, are queries about XFree >stuff still to be directed elsewhere than cygwin@cygwin.com? You've quoted Robert and Harold, apparently. Robert is one of the core cygwin developers. He's also one of the people who "get it". Harold is the Mr. Cygwin/XFree86. You can assume that he knows what he's talking about too. You can pretty much take it for granted that if those two guys says something is off-topic they've probably got it right. So, to answer your question with a couple of other questions: Did you see an announcement that the cygwin-xfree mailing list was going away? Have you been seeing me consistently sending cygwin-xfree questions to the cygwin-xfree mailing list? Have you read the Mailing Lists link at the cygwin web site? Do you think it makes sense to increase the mailing list traffic in the cygwin mailing list or to make people who are only subscribed to cygwin-xfree now have to read cygwin, too? I think the answer to these questions is obvious. In case it isn't. The specific answer to your question is at http://cygwin.com/lists.html . 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/