Announcements now only go to the cygwin-announce list

Announcements now only go to the cygwin-announce list

[Jon Turney]

The auto-forwarding of announcements from the cygwin-announce mailing 
list to the cygwin mailing list has been removed.

This seems to be hard to make work reliably (sometimes it doubles the 
messages, sometimes they don't get forwarded), apparently prevents us 
from adding a meaningful standard footer (e.g. with unsubscribe 
instructions, so we have to rely on maintainers remembering to add it 
manually), and no-one seems to know why we're doing it.

If you want to continue to receive these announcements in the future, 
please consider subscribing to the cygwin-announce mailing list (or 
reading it via news://news.gmane.io/gmane.os.cygwin.announce, or via the 
various protocols that inbox.sourceware.org provides).

Re: Announcements now only go to the cygwin-announce list

[Brian Inglis]

On 2023-09-21 08:46, Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote:
> The auto-forwarding of announcements from the cygwin-announce mailing list to 
> the cygwin mailing list has been removed.
> 
> This seems to be hard to make work reliably (sometimes it doubles the messages, 
> sometimes they don't get forwarded), apparently prevents us from adding a 
> meaningful standard footer (e.g. with unsubscribe instructions, so we have to 
> rely on maintainers remembering to add it manually), and no-one seems to know 
> why we're doing it.
> 
> If you want to continue to receive these announcements in the future, please 
> consider subscribing to the cygwin-announce mailing list (or reading it via 
> news://news.gmane.io/gmane.os.cygwin.announce, or via the various protocols that 
> inbox.sourceware.org provides).

e.g.
	https://inbox.sourceware.org/cygwin-announce/
also
	https://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-announce@cygwin.com/
	-	also provides Atom/RSS feed link options

	https://marc.info/?l=cygwin-announce&r=1&w=2

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to cut
                                 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Re: Announcements now only go to the cygwin-announce list

[Duncan Roe]

Hi cygwin,

On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 03:46:31PM +0100, cygwin wrote:
>
> The auto-forwarding of announcements from the cygwin-announce mailing list
> to the cygwin mailing list has been removed.
>
> This seems to be hard to make work reliably (sometimes it doubles the
> messages, sometimes they don't get forwarded), apparently prevents us from
> adding a meaningful standard footer (e.g. with unsubscribe instructions, so
> we have to rely on maintainers remembering to add it manually), and no-one
> seems to know why we're doing it.
>
> If you want to continue to receive these announcements in the future, please
> consider subscribing to the cygwin-announce mailing list (or reading it via
> news://news.gmane.io/gmane.os.cygwin.announce, or via the various protocols
> that inbox.sourceware.org provides).
>
Can someone with appropriate access update https://cygwin.com/lists.html then
please? It still says " Announcements sent to cygwin-announce are automatically
sent to the Cygwin mailing list so there is no reason to subscribe to both ...".

I tried subscribing, but no confirmation email after half an hour.

Cheers ... Duncan.

Re: Announcements now only go to the cygwin-announce list

[Jon Turney]

On 22/09/2023 00:46, Duncan Roe via Cygwin wrote
> Hi cygwin,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 03:46:31PM +0100, cygwin wrote:
>>
>> The auto-forwarding of announcements from the cygwin-announce mailing list
>> to the cygwin mailing list has been removed.
>>
>> This seems to be hard to make work reliably (sometimes it doubles the
>> messages, sometimes they don't get forwarded), apparently prevents us from
>> adding a meaningful standard footer (e.g. with unsubscribe instructions, so
>> we have to rely on maintainers remembering to add it manually), and no-one
>> seems to know why we're doing it.
>>
>> If you want to continue to receive these announcements in the future, please
>> consider subscribing to the cygwin-announce mailing list (or reading it via
>> news://news.gmane.io/gmane.os.cygwin.announce, or via the various protocols
>> that inbox.sourceware.org provides).
>>
> Can someone with appropriate access update https://cygwin.com/lists.html then
> please? It still says " Announcements sent to cygwin-announce are automatically
> sent to the Cygwin mailing list so there is no reason to subscribe to both ...".

Thanks for pointing this out.  I have removed that sentence.

Unable to subscribe to the cygwin-announce list

[Duncan Roe]

Hi Admins,

On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 03:46:31PM +0100, cygwin wrote:
>
> The auto-forwarding of announcements from the cygwin-announce mailing list
> to the cygwin mailing list has been removed.
>
> This seems to be hard to make work reliably (sometimes it doubles the
> messages, sometimes they don't get forwarded), apparently prevents us from
> adding a meaningful standard footer (e.g. with unsubscribe instructions, so
> we have to rely on maintainers remembering to add it manually), and no-one
> seems to know why we're doing it.
>
> If you want to continue to receive these announcements in the future, please
> consider subscribing to the cygwin-announce mailing list (or reading it via
> news://news.gmane.io/gmane.os.cygwin.announce, or via the various protocols
> that inbox.sourceware.org provides).
>
I've tried a number of times to subscribe via
https://cygwin.com/mailman/listinfo/cygwin-announce/ : I get the message "Your
subscription request has been received, ... you will soon get a confirmation
email ...", but I never get an email.

Could an Admin subscribe me to the list please?

Cheers ... Duncan.