Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 09:51:11PM +0100, Andreas Eibach wrote: >From: "Christopher Faylor" >To: cygwin-xfree >Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:28 PM >Subject: Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge Why are you duplicating the headers of the email in the body of the

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:56:37PM -, Phil Betts wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 5:49 PM:: > >> 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 c

RE: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-12 Thread Phil Betts
Christopher Faylor wrote on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 5:49 PM:: > 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 on

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-11 Thread Ralph Hempel
Andrew Schulman wrote: increase in email traffic for people who just want to hear about cygwin/x. ... or just want not to. I've got my email client (Thunderbird) set to move messages from mailing lists that I subscribe to into different folders based on the To: field. I'm probably not the on

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-11 Thread Andrew Schulman
> increase in email > traffic for people who just want to hear about cygwin/x. ... or just want not to. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-11 Thread Will Parsons
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 t

RE: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-11 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: Christopher Faylor > > The historical reasons for [un?]merging the cygwin and > cygwin-xfree lists no longer seems to exist so I am > contemplating merging the two lists. For us old-timers, what were the historical reasons again, and why/how did they go away? -- Gary R. Van Sickle

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-11 Thread Eric Lilja
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. 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 ar

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-11 Thread John Emmas
- Original Message - From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" Subject: Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge That may have been true until November 12. But in the last four weeks since X11R7.4, there have been ~500 messages on cygwin-xfree, including 30 announcements (including

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Andreas Eibach wrote: > But on xfree, there IS NO traffic! > > This is ridiculously few compared to 2 years ago when Harold L Hunt put > more work into this _per week_ than all people together summed up from > summer to end of this year! That may ha

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Andreas Eibach
Will Parsons wrote: > You may not consider it a compelling argument, but I find the traffic on > the cygwin list more than enough already, and am glad I don't have to > bother about the cygwin-xfree traffic. I'd prefer to keep things as > is. But on xfree, there IS NO traffic! Just check the arch

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
I applaud the change! And while some hippos may not be sanguine, Elephant\Rhinos (Elifinos!, as in, 'El-if-i-no which list to send it to') are ecstatic! ;-) Lee sowiso wrote: I don't mind the traffic of xfree, but the cygwin list has too much traffic. There IS traffic on xfree? Looks

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread sowiso
> > I don't mind the traffic of xfree, but the cygwin list has too much traffic. There IS traffic on xfree? Looks this has escaped me then. :P -a -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: ht

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Will Parsons
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. > > 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 cohe

cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
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