On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:16:31PM -0000, Stephen Ford wrote: >I was rather surprised at the cumbersome nature of the Cygwin mailing >lists. There are difficult to manage, and the fact that all mails >appear in your mailbox, whether related to a post or not is, not what I >would have expected. The Cygwin environment is very comprehensive, but >something as simple as a poor support system (and compared with all the >others I use, this is poor) can restrict interest. > >Sorry to be critical, but I was taken a-back. Is it going to be >improved by using a newsgroup for example?
A "mailing list" uses "email" for its communication mechanism. Apparently either you or your email reader lacks the skills to do the filtering required to put cygwin mailing list traffic into a separate folder. I'd suggest that you probably should investigate how to do this. That's how I, and countless other people read the cygwin mailing list. If you do a google search for the term "mailing list" I think you'll see that this is a pretty popular method for disseminating information so getting email software that do this type of filtering for you and learning how to use it will be beneficial. I see that the announcement of the gmane cygwin newsgroup has fallen off the bottom of the main cygwin web page so I can't in good conscience use my usual "use the web page" rebuke. You can find a link to it on this page, however: http://cygwin.com/news.html . I assume that this will satisfy your needs. If it doesn't we'll cheerfully refund your purchase price. 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/
