cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Wed Dec 10 21:29:00 GMT 2008


On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 02:45:17PM -0500, jose isaias cabrera wrote:
>I don't mind the traffic of xfree, but the cygwin list has too much
>traffic.

You have my mild sympathy.

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" 
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> To: <XXX@XXX>; <XXX@XXX>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:49 PM
> Subject: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge
>
>> The historical reasons for merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists no
>> longer seems to exist so I am contemplating merging the two lists.
>>
>> If anyone has a compelling reason why this should not happen please send
>> it to one of the two lists.  If I don't hear a coherent argument against
>> doing this, I'll throw the switch over the weekend.
>>
>> Btw, I'm only mildly sympathetic to arguments like "It will be more
>> email for me".  I'm more concerned with having to constantly shuttle
>> people back and forth between the two lists.  Unless there is a
>> compelling argument to the contrary, I think that the fact that people
>> are confused about which list to use outweighs the increase in email
>> traffic for people who just want to hear about cygwin/x.

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