Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 04:00:43AM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>>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?

Good question.  My email records don't go back far enough to know for
sure and I don't see anything telling in the mailing list archives.

I think that one of the early maintainers (maybe Suhaib Siddiqi) didn't
want to read the cygwin list to look for cygwin-xfree questions.

I believe I was actually somewhat reluctant to do the split because (I
know this will be hard to believe) I thought there would be end-user
confusion that would require a lot of "use the other list" shuttling.

OTOH, maybe I was actively insisting on it and relishing the chance to
tell people they were off-topic.

I'm just proposing this now because Yaakov asked about it and Jon
indicated that he would be ok with it.  Yaakov obviously reads both
lists and he has observed that the lines are sometimes blurred between
what's a X question and what isn't.

Do you have an opinion either way, Gary?

Another thing that occurred to me is that we could keep the two lists
and stop telling people that they *had* to ask questions about X here.

cgf

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