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Re: Moving to Usenet?


For those who don't like receiving a lot of email, just do like I do: don't 
subscribe to the list and use Cygwin's excellent mail archive facility. It 
is updated very quickly (usualy less than a minute after a message is 
sent). You can index messages by date, subject, author and thread. There is 
a search engine. Every message posted to list is there, back to January 
1997. Do we really need something more sophisticated ?

http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/ is the way to go.


>Wouldn't it be an idea to move this mailing list to Usenet, rather than 
>flooding
>everyone's e-mail address with 100+ mails every day? I think it would give 
>some
>advantages:
>
>* Less traffic on people's inboxes.
>* Possibility of posting binaries/large code samples. If people don't want 
>'em,
>they don't have to download them.
>* Eaisier to keep an overview of threads, rather than all mails arriving 
>in a big
>mess.
>
>I'm sure you've considered this before, why did you decide against this?


André Bleau, ing., analyste
email: bleau at courriel dot polymtl dot ca
(Fight SPAM: encode your email-address)

Département de génie électrique et         Electric Engineering and
de génie informatique                      Computer Engineering department
École Polytechnique de Montréal            Montreal Polytechnic School


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