On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:19:15PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 03:30:25PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>>News servers were created exactly to address this issue. It is the >>>medium developed exactly for what we are trying to do here. Am I so >>>wrong to ask why we are not using the medium?!?. >> >>As a wild guess, I suppose because a newsgroup isn't available? >> >>If you feel this strongly about a news server then I see no reason why >>you shouldn't set one up. I'll be happy to advertise the service on >>the cygwin web site. >> >>I'd suggest that you gateway the cygwin mailing list into news, and >>vice versa. That would probably be optimum. >> >>I have several other great ideas which I'll be happy to share with you >>once you've gotten your service set up. >> >As I just got through mentioning to Larry I would take a shot at >setting it up however I lack the resources (a machine, the software and >the space). Hosting this from my home PC is probably not a good idea.
Maybe you should investigate the internet and see if there is a site available which provides this type of service. A quick scan of google.com seems to indicate that there are some sites which will do this for free. 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/
