From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29860 invoked by alias); 1 Feb 2002 17:59:37 -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 29826 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2002 17:59:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO SONS-EXCH02.SALIRA.COM) (206.184.204.3) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Feb 2002 17:59:36 -0000 Received: from Salira.com ([192.168.1.124]) by SONS-EXCH02.SALIRA.COM with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.3779); Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:59:37 -0800 Message-ID: <3C5AD788.90307@Salira.com> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 09:59:00 -0000 From: Andrew DeFaria Organization: Salira Optical Networks User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Why not a news server? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Feb 2002 17:59:37.0075 (UTC) FILETIME=[3657FC30:01C1AB4A] X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00035.txt.bz2 Why not simply set up a news server instead of this mail list. I find the mail list deficient in several areas. First and foremost it's noisy causing me to wade through all this email for topics I'm interested in. Secondly there's no easy or convenient way to response to individual issues (I get a digest of cygwin stuff emailed to me). Seems to me that nntp was designed specifically for such communications and a number of companies have set up news servers for such things. Finally a number of times I receive a digest speaking of topics and articles but the email message is apparently truncated and the bodies of these articles are missing. Comments? (I'm sure there will be some). -- 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/