From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 122099 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2015 12:43:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 122088 invoked by uid 89); 24 Jul 2015 12:43:01 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: out1-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 12:43:00 +0000 Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.internal [10.202.2.43]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEFAA209F3 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 08:42:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 24 Jul 2015 08:42:58 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host31-51-206-117.range31-51.btcentralplus.com [31.51.206.117]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3B7BBC0001C; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 08:42:58 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Minor issues with Cygwin/X FAQ webpage To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <201507201914.PAA11490@Stone.Rodents-Montreal.ORG> <55AE53E3.3080406@dronecode.org.uk> <201507211436.KAA17277@Stone.Rodents-Montreal.ORG> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Mouse From: Jon TURNEY Message-ID: <55B232D1.60409@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 12:43:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201507211436.KAA17277@Stone.Rodents-Montreal.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2015-07/txt/msg00373.txt.bz2 On 21/07/2015 15:36, Mouse wrote: >>> In FAQ item 1.9, [...] >>> Surely those list addresses shouldn't _all_ be the same...? >> This piece of text obviously doesn't make much sense after the >> search-and-replace which happened when the cygwin-xfree list was >> deprecated. > > Ah! I wondered how that had happened. Makes perfect sense now. > Though, I do note, the new wording makes it sound as though cygwin@ is > specifically for Cygwin/X, rather than all of Cygwin. As a strawman > for a fix, how about > > Not for Cygwin/X specifically, but Cygwin/X traffic is > appropriate for the main Cygwin list at cygwin@.... > >>> 12.8. Isn't "XWin" trademarked by StarNet Communications? > >>> No. A quick search at the United States Patent and Trademark >>> Office for "XWin" [...] >>> The question does not specify a jurisdiction; [...] >> I don't know why this is in the FAQ. It seems to record the >> discussion at [1]. > > It does, it does indeed. I did a few searches against the archives, > but must have missed the search terms which would have turned up that > one. (Not surprising; my search-fu is quite weak.) > >> How would you suggest rewriting this? > > It could be as simple as changing the answer to something like > > Not in the USA, at least; a quick search at... I've adjusted the FAQ text in those areas. Thanks for your comments. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple