Eric Lilja wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> The historical reasons for merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists no >> longer seems to exist so I am contemplating merging the two lists. >> > I am strongly in favor of merging the two lists. I was a bit surprised > that some people think the traffic will be too intense and it makes me > wonder how they read the lists in the first place. If they just get sent > every message posted as an email with all threading gone, then, yes, a > more than minimum amount of traffic will be hard to follow. > I use gmane (and I'm sure there are alternatives) to make "newsgroup > view" of the lists in my email-client so I get the all-important > threading. Here's a screenshot if someone didn't know this is possible: > http://www.bahnhof.se/wb106362/cygwin_mailing_list.png
I'm one of those in favour of keeping the lists separate, and I *do* use gmane myself and I *do* see the threading. (Some years ago I subscribed to the mailing list and gave it up due to the high volume of traffic.) So, gmane certainly helps, but it is not (for me) a solution. (I'm sure it all depends on how many other newsgroups/mailing lists one follows.) -- Will -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
